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Naturalist Notebook Let nature be your teacher (ex- banker)

Naturalist Notebook Let nature be your teacher (ex- banker). Naturalist Notebook Let nature be your teacher - Mangroves. Mangroves. A tangle of exposed roots. Haven of Biodiversity. Once considered useless swamps worthy to be turned into landfills.

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Naturalist Notebook Let nature be your teacher (ex- banker)

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  1. Naturalist NotebookLet nature be your teacher (ex- banker)

  2. Naturalist NotebookLet nature be your teacher - Mangroves

  3. Mangroves

  4. A tangle of exposed roots

  5. Haven of Biodiversity

  6. Once considered useless swamps worthy to be turned into landfills

  7. Over 75 % of all commercial species require the mangrove in it life cycleThe biomass of certain commercially valuable species of fish, prawns and crabs more than double when adult habitat is connected to mangroves

  8. 1900 tons of carbon are stored per hectare per yearRAMSAR site in Johor does more than 17 million tons per year.

  9. Tourism

  10. 200m wide belt of mangroves can reduce the force of a tsunami by more than 75%

  11. Manzanar Project, Eritrea Greening a Desert - Feeding people

  12. Protecting the natural environment is not just the fancy pursuit of idealistic individuals or groups with nothing better to do. It very much about protecting the quality of air we breath, the water we drink and the food we eat. It is about protecting the quality of our lives.

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