Mangroves Are A Scavenger Poem by Rm. Shanmugam Chettiar

Mangrove forests occupy inter spaces
Between wet lands and sea grass meadows.
They form a component of the surface,
The underwater and the aerial.

Mangroves are made of flora and fauna.
Fish, water birds, insects and reptiles abound.
Algae, fungi and numerous plants throng.
A supplier of fuel wood and solutes.

Mangroves are the bed of stored carbon.
The complex roots moderate current flows.
The broad canopies moderate wind flow.
The species die in water and add carbon.

Mangrove forests protect all organism
By keeping away of carbon to offset
Green house gas emission, man's creation.
They have aerialroots and aerial germination.

Mangrove zones are biodiversity.
The red mangroves are of Rhizophoraceae.
The black mangroves are of Acanthaceae
The white mangroves are of Combretaceae.

Mangroves are losing to oil pollution,
Human onslaughts and the drought migration.
Mangroves are a link between land and sea.
They thrive where other plants and animals do not.
18.05.2020