Mangroves
Primefact Number: 746 Edition: First edition Released/reviewed: 01 May 2008
This Primefact presents a comprehensive summary of mangroves in NSW.
It outlines:
- what mangroves are
- why mangroves are important
- where they occur
- their current status in NSW
- threats to their existence
- their economic value
- how to protect them.
Options for rehabilitation of mangroves are outlined and include the following methods:
- natural recruitment
- seeding
- transplanting
- reducing wave energy.
It includes photos and diagrams which will help readers identify the main species of mangroves growing in coastal NSW.
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