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TSUNAMI, MANGROVE AND THE MALDIVES.

The terrible tsunami that struck the Indian ocean Nations on that deadly night of December 6 2004,would have devastated the low lying islands (one to one and half meters above sea level) of the beautiful archipelago if there were not enough mangroves to protect them.
Maldivian islands are not home for huge sky scrapping trees. The biggest trees you will find here are Bread fruit trees, Bunyan trees, etc. Most of the vegetation here is the protective angels like mangroves.
The tiny islands which …
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PLANTING FOR POSTERITY

Until you dig a hole, you plant a tree, you water it and make it survive, you haven't done a thing. You are just talking. Wangari Maathai

Just less than a kilo meter area, with a population of more than one thousand, two football fields, four mosques, one school,two nursery schools, a boatyard, a 'vast' dumping-yard, a boat jetty, a power house, etc, etc, I found myself in a dilemma whether I would be forced to plant my sapling in a flower pot and let it sail on the mass of water around my isla…
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areesha 2017年08月15日

like the quote..

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neoGe 2017年08月15日

Yes, areesha , its really touching, thank you.

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