Mangrove Ecosystem Importance

Functions of Malaysian Mangrove Ecosystem

Malaysia is blest with widespread mangrove ecosystem around the nation. Mangrove deliver a range of economic, social and environmental benefits to people, collectively referred to as their ecosystem goods and services. Mangrove also play a key role in supporting human well-being, particularly for adjacent coastal communities by providing access to basic materials health, security and good social relations. As we all know, mangrove ecosystem is very important natural resources to Malaysia since it is the habitat for so many of flora and fauna. There was a few study showed that mangrove ecosystem is the habitat for some microorganisms too. Thus, we cannot deny that mangrove is a valuable natural resource

Mangroves also help to maintain water quality and regulate our climate, by the uptake of pollutants, cycling of nutrients and sequestration and long-term storage of carbon. Furthermore, mangrove ecosystem can give lots of benefits since it is suitable as the recreational areas, education, development of management plan, research and development and ecotourism. Mangrove also is important as cultural services too because the nonmaterial benefits people obtain from visiting or using the mangroves including for spiritual or religious practices, ties with cultural heritage and recreational experiences purpose. Below are the details about the functions of mangrove ecosystem in

For example, according to the legends of the Asmat people from Irian Jaya (West Papua, Indonesia), the creator carved human-like figurines out of a mangrove roots this came to life when he played a drum out of a mangrove tree. Today, wood carvers are held in high esteem in communities and mangrove tree roots are still used to carve intricate ceremonial poles to commemorate specific individuals and ancestors and other items such as drums, shields and figures. In Kenya, shrines built in the mangrove forests are worshipped by the local people, who believe spirits of the shrine will bring death to those who cut the surrounding trees. These close connections with mangroves can be incredibly important for individuals and are impossible to value. Mangroves may also provide opportunities for leisure, recreation and education. Mangroves are being opened up to residents and tourists alike for recreational fishing, bird watching and wildlife watching throughout the world. Some locations attract many visitors, such as the Dongchaigang nature reserve in China, the boardwalk in Cairns in Australia, and Laguna de Resting in Venezuela (which receives around 60,000 visitors annually), to list only a few examples. The mangrove boardwalk in the Galapagos Islands (Ecuador) provides a unique opportunity for eco-tourists to see wetlands