Mangroves Shielded Communities Against Tsunami Date: October 28, 2005 Source: World Wildlife Fund Summary: A new study released today in the journal Science shows that areas buffered by coastal ...

The Indian Ocean tsunami highlighted the life-saving benefits of mangrove forests along coastlines, leading some Asia nations to look at replanting trees lost in the tsunami and earlier to fish farms.

In a similar town with no mangrove forest, 6,000 people died. Not surprisingly, many coastal villages are eager to plant mangrove forests to protect them in the event of another tsunami.

Mangrove forests protected areas from 2004 tsunami says new study WWF news release November 18, 2005 Editor’s summary: A study released in late October shows that areas buffered by coastal ...

The tsunami had swept across the beach unhindered on its way inland. They explained to me that the mangroves could help create a buffer against giant waves in the future.

Agricultural expansion rather than shrimp farming is the major factor responsible for the destruction of tropical mangrove forests in the tsunami-impacted regions of Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand ...

Along a strip of India's southeastern coastline, trees protected certain villages from last December's tsunami, while waves wiped out neighboring settlements that weren't sheltered by vegetation.

Environment Andaman Islands and its mangroves still reeling from effects of 2004 tsunami The geological disaster caused parts of island coastlines to rise or be submerged, affecting the ecology ...

Tsunami deposits identified in a coastal mangrove pond in Northwest Puerto Rico could have come from a megathrust earthquake at the Puerto Rico Trench that occurred between 1470 and 1530 ...

Mangrove deforestation compounded the effects of the tsunami. After the wave passed, villagers reported that areas with more mangrove cover suffered less damage.

Researchers have said that if the myriad natural barriers along the India’s coastline, including mangroves, did not exist, destruction by tsunami and coastal floods could have been more.