World Mangrove Day Photography Awards
World Mangrove Day Photography Awards 2020 Gallery
We’re over the moon to celebrate World Mangrove Day with you and share all your beautiful photos with the world. Our 2020 contest has been our most exciting by far, receiving over a thousand entries entries from all corners of the earth, from Antigua & Barbuda to New Zealand. Enjoy with us the tallest mangroves of Ecuador, the fascinating underwater nurseries, the fly-over aerials, the majestic and endangered wildlife, the unique human-mangrove relationships, and the passion to restore a more balanced world. Your fantastic photos from nearly 70 countries illustrate the true beauty and importance of our mangrove ecosystem.
The judging process has now begun, with our four amazing judges; Cristina Mittermeier, Steve Winter, Octavio Aburto, and Jennifer Hayes looking over many excellent submissions. We will be sharing the winners at the start of September, so watch this space!
World Mangrove Day commemorates Greenpeace activist Hayhow Daniel Nanoto, who died during a massive protest to re-establish the mangrove wetlands in Ecuador, in 1998. For the last 27 years, the Mangrove Action Project has celebrated this day with a commitment to action in defense of the mangroves and the communities that rely on them.
We hope you enjoy viewing the images as much as we enjoyed receiving them. We cannot thank you enough, for an incredible World Mangrove Day! We’re blown away by the how many of you took part this year. As only 150 photos can be viewed at once, please refresh the page to reveal more of the amazing photo submissions – all 1122 submitted are up! Click the filters below to search by category or region.
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Charan Raj - India - Saplings across Havelock
As a part of mangrove conservation, the environmentalists have taken extreme measures on entire island by planting saplings around.
Suryansah - Indonesia - Biota Kepiting Laga
Kepiting laga keluar mencari makanan
Alfonso Ortiz Montes - Colombia - Crying Mangroves
Without saying thanks for their great work done with nature and its marine ecosystems, construction men razed these beautiful specimens to build a hotel project
Tarah Munro - Australia - Moonlight Amongst The Mangroves
This image was captured down at Hervey Bay in Queensland. Furthermore, it was retweeted on the Mangrove Action Twitter page.
Vimalan Magandran - Malaysia - Lets Boating at Mangrove
The boat is parked in the waters of Mangrove Coastal Area as for mangrove conservation & fishing
Amdad Hossain - Bangladesh - It's photo taken time
The photo was taken from Sitakundo area of Chittagong city in Bangladesh.
SriChakra Pranav Tamarapalli - India -
This is a fishermen island village in middle of a vast mangrove forest. It has a population of around 10,000 people and they are mostly dependant on mangrove forest for their livelihood.
Farzaneh Bordbar - Malaysia - Grasp at Life
Setiu wetlands located in the eastern part of Malaysia. The Gastropods near the roots are Telescopium telescopium. They are mangrove associated fauna.
Steven Paton - Panama - Birds, birds, bird
Large flock of migratory Laughing Gulls (Leucophaeus atricilla) take off together in front of the mangroves located on the edge of Panama City
Asfau Hassan - Maldives - Relaxing zone watching eedhigali kilhi
Benches put in place to enjoy the relaxing environment of eedhigali kilhi in the Addu nature park
Pallavi Laveti - India - Sun bathing in the Sundarbans
This is a picture of Salt water crocodile clicked in the mangroves of Sundarbans in India. As the name implies, this species of crocodile can live in marine environment, but usually resides in saline and brackish mangrove swamps, estuaries, deltas, lagoons and lower stretches of rivers. Being cold blooded animals, they can be seen basking in the sun to soak up some heat. The crocodile in the image is doing exactly that. The image takes in the habitat to give more context.
Stefanie Rog - Australia - Conqueror of Salt and Tide
An air-breathing marine slug found in intertidal areas, and more closely related to air-breathing land slugs than other sea slugs like nubibranchs
Jose Tavares Bezerra Junior - Brazil - Family Meeting
Spotted the gathering of wonderful birds in the mangrove of Brazil
Levis Sirikwa - Kenya - Adopt-A-Site Model (Mangrove Planting)
The very first stakeholder engagement of Adopt-A-Site model entails mangrove planting in an identical mangrove degraded site. The sites are named after the specific stakeholder who supported the mangrove planting.
Carlos Eduardo Gomez - Dominican Republic - Mangroves are Home
This Vervain Hummingbird chose this mangrove to place its nest, the maglares are home to a great diversity of birds.
Azim Musthag - Maldives - Kendhikulhudhoo Mangroves from above
A strip of land separates the water from the sea and the brown waters of the mangroves. There are few openings which allow water to flow in and out into the mangrove as well as through the porous
Gustavo Castellanos - Colombia - The wettest mangroves of the world (Bahía Málaga, Colombian Pacific coast)
his area has 8 m of annual rainfall. Mangroves grow to heights of 45 m and seem to live happy under these conditions.
Busolo Bonface - Kenya - Mangrove for eco-tourism
Mangroves ecosystems has been a fundamental source of aesthetic value. communities has benefited from ecosystem services provided by the forest. The photo shows a constructed boardwalk to help in accessing mangrove ecosystem services. This is livelihood alternative that support conservation.
Jess Masham - Australia - Labelled Grey
Label for Grey Mangroves at Cairns Botanical Gardens Mangrove boardwalk & educational walk.
Ian Lockwood - Bangladesh - October Sky, Sundarban_1280
Monsoon clouds linger over a remote part of the Bangladesh Sundarban. Taken on medium format film in the 1990s as a part of a series on Bangladesh's forests.
Janina Lobmüller - Brazil - Little Mangrove in its Pond
During my Master‘s studies I spent 6 months in Northern Brazil doing research on a mangrove crab. I captured this little mangrove in its pond near the end of my stay, trying to capture all the different forms and sizes of mangroves I saw around me. It is my favorite mangrove photo from my 6 months in Brazil.
Frederick Asante - Sri Lanka - Co-occurring mangroves
Avicennia marina and Rhizophora mucronata are mostly found at the fringe of the Rekawa lagoon. The picture uploaded shows A. marina locked in the extensive network of stilt and prop root of Rhizophora. They both help to reduce flooding of communities and hotels around the lagoon.
Yixlen Guzmán-Sánchez - Costa Rica - More plastic than pneumatophores
This mangrove swamp is particularly contaminated by solid waste, which comes from nearby towns, but also from more remote ones; in any case plastic pollution is a huge problem in coastal areas
Gulf of Khambhat (Cambay), Gujarat, India
Mangrove rehabilitation at the Gulf of Khambhat (Cambay), Gujarat
SriChakra Pranav Tamarapalli - India - Dependency of communities on mangroves
A picture depicting vast mangrove forest, a fisherman island and the fishing crafts. Communities are well connected and completely dependant on mangroves.
Cesar J. Zacarías-Coxic - Guatemala - Felicidad entre el manglar
Unas horas de trabajo entre el bosque de mangle negro para capturar unas docenas de cangrejo azul
Darryl Hernandez - Trinidad & Tobago - Catching early morning sun rays with the 'Sanke Bird'
Anhinga commonly referred to as the snake bird, Nariva Swamp, Trinidad and Tobago, W.I.
Dianne TippingWoods - Mozambique - Time to Plant
This is a photograph taken near Xai Xai in Mozambique where the women of Mahielene village gathered to plant mangrove seedlings.
Muhammad Amdad Hossain - Bangladesh - A guava seller
The photo taken from a garden of Barisal city in bangladesh.
Kazuyo Nagahama - Japan - Encounter with Mangroves
My father, 82 years old, visited mangrove forest. He could survived during WWII, and he was happy to observed this old forest.
Azim Musthag - Maldives - Mangrove Island
A large part of the island of Kendhikulhudhoo consists of wetlands.
Anik Saha - Bangladesh - Fish the life for local community
Some fishermen do fishing during high tide in the small channels. They need to do regular repairing their fishing nets at low tide.
Morgan Bennett-Smith - Papua New Guinea - In the shade of the young mangrove tree
A small reticulate whipray rests under a mangrove in the shallows off the coast of Thuwal, Saudi Arabia. Various species of rays are frequent and charismatic visitors to these local mangrove ecosystems, highlighting their importance as habitat to many marine organisms.
Le Minh Tuan - Indonesia - Make senses
You can see it is growing up although salt water.
Sarita Emmanuel - Trinidad & Tobago - Survival
A man puts his clothes back on after a short dive in the nearby Bon Accord Lagoon (Tobago, W.I.), for queen conchs. Lobatus gigas (queen conch) is overexploited in most Caribbean islands for their tasty, meaty parts as most coastal communities use them as a food source. The Lagoon is part of a complex mangrove-seagrass-coral reef habitat that supports the queen conch populations.
Diana Cisneros - Mexico - Scrub mangrove in Sian Ka'an
These mangroves are adults of only 50cm of high
Savary Romain - Saudi Arabia - Mangroves UFO
A baby blue spotted ribbontail stingray navigates the shallow water of the mangrove around the university of KAUST in Saudi arabia, Red Sea. This newly formed mangrove following the building of the university is now providing shelter to young rays such as this amazing blue spotted stingray or other rays such as the reticulate whiptail stingray.
Jiwe chilodi Ibrahim - Kenya - Propagule season (2)
A young girl learning about mangroves and propagules while helping the mother in harvesting and sorting propagules for direct planting.
Pallavi Laveti - India - The elusive one
Little is known and understood about Fishing cats. The reason for that is the elusive nature of the cat that makes it that much more difficult to study it. In this image is one such shy cat that peeks from between and behind the mangrove fauna, depicting this very trait of the Fishing cat.
Ahmad Nur Syahmi bin Zainal - Malaysia - River Life
Jetty at Kuala Trong, Malaysia when low tides.
Delphine L. Pereira - India - Study of mangrove diversity
Photography to study diversity and create awareness
Sandra McCullough - Australia - Core sampling in the Daintree
A group of volunteers led by tidal wetland ecologist and co-founder of MangroveWatch, Jock Mackenzie, extract a mangrove peat sediment core in the mangrove ecosystem along the Daintree River, Australia. Volunteers participate as part of a research and monitoring citizen science expedition organised by Earthwatch Australia. Valuable data collected will form important research and contribute to improved management and conservation of the Daintree mangroves.
Thadshajiny Kandasamy - Sri Lanka - The view from above
Where the mangroves meets the lagoons and the coconut trees meet the sea.
Poh Poh Wong - Indonesia -Typical large S. alba offers coastal protection
Spared from logging large S. alba on the seaward edge of the mangrove fringe offers the first line of defence from storms and tsunamis.
Yus Rusila Noor - Indonesia - Mangrove is childhood's playing ground
Children are using healthy mangrove as their playing ground. Their memorable childhood attachment to the healthy mangrove might lead to their engagement on mangrove conservation and restoration initiative
Arghyadeep Das - India - Mudskipper
Mudskippers, unlike other fishes are able to survive on land with ease.
Desi Ayu Triana - Indonesia - Endemic and Vulnerable Bird Had to Live in Polluted Mangrove Ecosystem
Sunda Coucal (Centropus nigrorufus) is endemic to Java, Indonesia. In Jakarta region, there is only 1 habitat left for this vulnerable black bird: mangrove of Suaka Margasatwa Muara Angke. But it is threatened by pollution, shown by this pict. Human waste dominated the pollutant. No wonder this red-eye bird is having vulnerable status.
Pallavi Laveti - India - Deer Mangroves, Thank you!
This image was clicked in the mangroves of Sundarbans, a UNESCO World Heritage site, in Eastern India. Spotted Deers are usually found in herds of about 25 individuals and form a significant prey base in these mangroves for the areas biggest land predator - the Bengal Tiger.
Charan Raj - Sri Lanka - Yes, I monitor!
It was quite a sight to witness this reptile in a mangrove forest.
Nurul Kamila - Indonesia - Introduce mangrove to children early
Introducing mangroves to children by inviting them directly.
Ian Lockwood - Bangladesh - Fishing Man, Sundarban
A fisherman cooks a meal on his boat near Kotka in the Bangladesh Sundarban Taken on medium format film in the 1990s as a part of a series on Bangladesh's forests.
Daniel Tjongari - Indonesia - Finding the light
Every plant needs light and water to live, as well as mangroves. When the sun is not enough to shine it, the other stems will find a way to find the light and make our beach sturdy against the strong ocean currents that erode our land.
Maria Janet q. Akip - Philippines - Threat of Life
Due to throwing of rubbish or garbage into the body of water. Reduces the ability of mangroves to grow healthier.
Eugiene Ambaka - Kenya - The Onset Of Tidal Forest Life
The flowers of mangrove trees give life to the forest, through pollination new propagules are brought into being, on reaching maturity that eventual detach from the mature parent tree disperse off and grow adding to the forest cover, thus perpetuating life in the forest.
Abel Kiprono - Kenya - Mangrove Nursery Establishment
"Miko Pamoja" translated to mangroves together, is a community based organization, and one of the first blue carbon project in the world. Its mandate is conservation and restoration of degraded and lost mangrove sites in Gazi bay. In order to meet the requirement for the payment of carbon credits from the voluntary markets, Mikoko Pamoja group has to meet their annual requirement by planting 4,000 seedlings of mangrove in their designated reforestation site in Gazi bay. The image shows part of the Mikoko Pamoja team establishing a mangrove nursery to raise mangrove seedlings at Gazi bay in the year 2018.
Alondra Carolina Alonso Roblero - Mexico - While the human is not around
This photo was taken in Ventanilla, Oaxaca. In that mangrove zone the community is helping to protect the area after a hurricane and their devastation. The wildlife is around taking a bathsun quietly.
Ansumana Darboe - Gambia - Local people planting mangrove to revive Gambian communities
Communities in rural Gambia planting mangrove propagules on degraded former mangrove forest that have suffered degradation and removal.
Manrico Masagca - Philippines - Tending the young mangroves
Tridip Das - India - In the creeks of Mangrove
The photo was taken in Bhaitarkanika National Park,Odisha,India This area is intersected by a network of creek of River Brahmani, Bitarani with Bay of Bengal on the east.
Zulkifli Mangkau - Indonesia - Life threatening fence
The people of Lambangan village, Pagimana Subdistrict, Luwuk-Banggai Regency, Central Sulawesi, are making young mangroves as their fences in front of their homes. That behavior occurs because of the lack of public awareness of the benefits of the presence of mangrove trees in the village. Mangrove trees that have just grown in the area will not last long. But gradually, they began to realize that the behavior violated the true usefulness of the mangrove tree. Damage that occurs will have an impact on mangrove ecosystems and will threaten the life of the surrounding biota. Now, Lambangan villagers are starting to realize the threats they will face, and are starting to take conservation steps, namely; began replanting the mangrove seeds they cared for with great hope.
John Thorogood - Australia - Ambush
Striated heron waits in ambush, secreted by the tangle of river mangrove (Aegiceras corniculatum) branches. Maroochydore River estuary, May 2020.
Piyush Aggrawal - India - Untitled
The image was also shot at Sundarban. Concrete development of human is leading them to thier own destruction.
Le Minh Tuan - Indonesia - Blue and Green
Sky always blue and Mangrove always green
Mondal Falgoonee Kumar - Bangladesh - Life in Sundarbans
A large number of fishermen depend on Sundarbans for their livelihood. This Photo is taken from Harbaria, Sundarbans. A group of fishermen are going for fishing.
Steph Johnson - Australia - Shark Bay mangroves 3 - context
30th June - taken on my morning walk. These mangroves line an inlet from the bay to a lagoon - Little Lagoon in Shark Bay Western Australia.
K Irfan Ali - India - Salty
Saltwater crocodile
Zahidah zeytoun Millie - UAE - Mangroves in Umm Al Quwain, UAE
Daily cutting of the mangroves in Umm Al Quwain to be used as fodder for the camels.
Dandung Diadhesma Azhar - Indonesia - #Fishery
This is daily activity of vilagger
Emily Keen - USA - Green Iguana in the Mangrove
A beautiful but invasive Green Iguana in the mangroves on Cudjoe Key in the Florida Keys.
San San Htay - Myanmar - Mangrove forest is our home
A crab on the mangrove tree
Rob Holmes - Thailand - Mangroves and Community-Based Tourism
"Our model of community-based tourism and sustainability is set up so that if we're taken away, if guests are taken away, the community is still going to be fine." The power of sustainability. Situated amidst pristine islands and mangroves along Thailand’s Andaman Coast, this rural muslim community has adopted a successful and sustainable community-based tourism model.
Subha Chakraborty - India - Nature
self Resilience
Remmy Safari Shoka - Kenya - Students Fieldwork
Mangrove ecosystem offer educational services through research and field work and edutours. Students visit conservation centres to learn more on the ecology, key conservation and management aspects and have a practical experience in the field of mangrove conservation. Information generated from such activities is crucial in the conservation of the resource.
Peggy Pixley - USA - Mangrove Skink
Photographed in a hidden mangrove environment, found only by following the river up at Jeffrey’s Beach, Saipan in the Northern Mariana Islands.
Catalin Chitu - Vietnam - Rung Sac Guerilla Base in Can Gio Biosphere Reserve
Rung Sac Guerilla Base in Can Gio Biosphere Reserve (tourist attraction). The base was established by Viet Cong soldiers between 1966 and 1975. Destroyed during the war, today is a reconstruction/museum in the middle of the forest.
Jerry Chidi - Nigeria - Niger Delta Ecocide
The Niger Delta has the fourth largest mangrove forest in the world but this forest is shrinking at an alarming rate as a result of pollution from crude oil exploration and exploitation, overexploitation of mangrove resource and alien invasion. The rich biodiversity of the region is thus critically endangered and the fisher folks are mostly out of work as a result of declining fisheries. The situation is now being described as Niger Delta Ecocide.
Hans Alois Schaeffer Niemann - Brazil - Lightshow
Image of mystery broken by sunrays
Jose Costa Miranda Junior - Brazil - Snack Time
The photo was taken at the "Lagoa da Jansen" State Park, located at the city of São Luís (capital of the Maranhão Province). It's a urban area, but the mangrove and it's wildlife still persists. The image brings a Yellow-crowned Night-Heron with a a small crab in its beak.
Javier Herranz Casellas - USA - Cormorants with Miami in the background
The cormorants take advantage of any human construction near the water to rest and dry their feathers after each dive to find food, as in the remains of this old Key Biscaine pier that contrast with the Miami skyline in the background. Florida, USA.
Ngaio Bowthorpe - Madagascar - A mud crab underfoot
Coastal communities in Ambanja, northwest Madagascar, rely on mangroves for their livelihoods, including fishing for mud crabs © Louise Jasper, Blue Ventures
Jacob J Bukoski - Thailand - For You
A mangrove flower for you.
Ricci Shryock - Guinea-Bissau - Environmental Balance in the Bijagos - Teresa and oysters in the mangroves
The Bijagós archipelago is a group of 88 mangrove and palm-fringed islands and islets off the coast of Guinea-Bissau in West Africa. The islands are a unique biosphere, and many of its areas are also considered sacred by the Bijagos community, and are therefore protected by the communities from overdevelopment. Amid the mangroves of Bubaque island, women form groups to gather oysters from the mangroves. The oysters are then sold or sometimes used in traditional ceremonies. Pictured here, Teresa Jaoquim, 39, wades through mud during low tide to look for oysters.
Dwaipayan Chaudhuri - India - The canines and Incisors
An yawning tigress showing her canines and Incisors while sitting lazily on the mud banks of the SUNDERBAN mangroves
Evan Landy - Singapore - Those who fish
I live within five minutes walk of one of Singapore's remnant patches of mangrove forest. Here, in Pasir Ris, in the North-east of the city, anglers and smooth-coated otters fish side by side. The otters can distinguish between fishermen and members of the public and are wary whenever the former are around. They have adapted to work around them and whilst the anglers outnumber them it is the otters, through their coordinated teamwork, who catch the bigger prizes each morning.
Ma. Victoria Conde - Philippines - Bleak
Around 600 mangrove trees were cut down in Bulacan, Philippines - the site for a big reclamation (airport) project in Manila Bay.
Caroline Njeri - Kenya - Wasini Women's Board Walk
Wasini Women's Board Walk is a Community project set up to attract tourists,who help them earn an income through entrance fee. It's a learning place for visitors and locals,to understand the importance of conserving mangroves.
Kottie Christie-Blick - Bangladesh - Fishing and Life Inextricably Tied Together
Fishing in the mangrove waterways of The Sundarbans provides a livelihood for many Bangladeshis.
Debbie Howard - Ecuador - Nesting Frigate Bird
A male Frigate Bird with his throat sac fully inflated, sits on his nest in the mangroves in the Galapagos Islands.
Kim Ingersoll - Belize - A tour of the mangroves
A day touring the mangrove trails
Manuel Campos - Mexico - Laguna de Cristal
Sistema lagunar saludable y conservado con una comunidad de Nymphaea ampla D.C. y al fondo un pequeño bosque de Rhizophora mangle L.
Cesar J. Zacarías-Coxic - Guatemala - Muerte del manglar
Modificación de la calidad y cantidad de agua ha provocado la muerte del manglar y posteriormente se usaron los árboles muertos como leña
Berenice Alvarez Torres - Mexico - Gratitude
Mangroves and wildlife in Rio Lagartos, Yucatan
Krystyna Powell - USA - Damage by the Wood Boring Isopod
A high intensity of burrowing by wood-boring isopod, S. terebrans, in aerial prop roots threatens the structural integrity of the mangrove tree. By burrowing into the root tip S. terebrans inhibits root elongation prompting the tree to either repair the damaged root or grow a new root tip. Structural changes within the root can cause roots to be broken off, thus leading to instability of the mangrove during storm events. This photo was taken in Biscayne Bay, FL.
Evan Landy - Singapore - Predation opportunity
The mangrove forest of Pasir Ris, in Singapore, is home to the remarkable tree climbing crab. These crustaceans will climb mangroves at high tide to avoid aquatic predators. Seeing crabs at eye level is a strange experience and one that has not gone unnoticed by an opportunistic predator. Oriental pied hornbills have excellent eyesight and regularly supplement their fruit-based diet with any extra protein they can find. The motionless crabs do not fool the hornbills, who swoop through the mangrove at high tide and gobble up any crabs they find. Hornbills were once extinct in Singapore and in a heavily urbanised city, with fragmented forest habitat, these feeding opportunities may make all the difference to the hornbills survival.
Tim Ritchie - Australia - Dawn on Woolooware Bay in Sydney
There's a cycle path that skits the mangrove around the bay, and it is raised to allow the tides to rise and fall and not interfere with nature, but still allow us to be amongst it.
Lydia Meester (Wetlands International) - Senegal - Oyster Farming in Saloum
The local community installs an oyster farming unit, which is an alternative livelihood that can ease pressure on mangrove ecosystems.
Mayang Sari Takdir - Indonesia - We Are The Next Generation
We are the next generation will always protect our forests and our seas, because protecting them is the same as protecting our mother and our home
Gaitrie Usha Satnarain - Suriname - Feeding Ground
Mangrove ecosystems serve as feeding ground for various species such as these birds.
Fakhrizal Setiawan - Indonesia - Boat formation
While waiting for tourists to arrive, the local tour guides form boat formations to ward off boredom in the village of Bahoi, North Sulawesi
Rob Holmes - Thailand - Ecotourism in Thailand's Mangroves
Baan Talae Nok on the Andaman coast offers ecotourism experiences that support people and the planet, bringing travelers closer to nature through safe and meaningful community-based tourism.
Siraj Paruk - South Africa - Connecting children with nature
The Beachwood Mangroves Nature Reserve is gem within the bustling City of Durban where communities living in a highly urbanised environment can connect with nature.
André Souza - Brazil - The distance between human and mangrove_1280
A child uses a wooden pallet as a buoy to reflect in the middle of the tide on the mangrove swamp taken by real estate speculation.
Dwaipayan Chaudhuri - India - The crab hunters
The crab hunters in the narrow lanes of the mangroves unaware of the dangers behind them.
Rachel M DiPietro - USA - That Doesn't Belong Here!
Can you imagine mangroves growing in the middle of a cypress dome?! That's exactly what I found on a backcountry hike near Pa-Hay-Okee in Everglades National Park. As sea levels rise, mangroves are advancing further inland with the saltwater, and now even mature trees are being found integrated into cypress domes and hardwood hammocks much farther north than usual. This photo gives testament not only to the resiliency of mangroves and the challenge they face in adapting quickly to the rising tides, but also the threat the mangroves signal to freshwater ecosystems with a low tolerance for salinity. With the Everglades already on life support, mangroves could become the majority habitat for an area projected to be mostly underwater in a matter of decades.
Frederick Asante - Sri Lanka - Pandanus sp
Pandanus is neither an associate nor a true mangrove. However, in Rekawa mangrove forest, these species cover most part of the forest. They density increases from the lagoon to the landward margin of the forest
Jillian Morris - Bahamas - Mangrove Nursery
Juvenile lemon sharks use the mangroves of Bimini, Bahamas as a nursery area. They spend the first 5-7 years of their life in this protected ecosystem.
Gaitrie Usha Satnarain - Suriname - Biodiversity
Mangrove ecosystems are also habitat for different species such as the crab.
Jorge Moisés Herrera R. - Panama - Sitio de Refugio
Los manglares son utilizados por muchas especies animales como sitio de refugio, en esta ocasión un perezoso de tres garras (Bradypus variegatus) se esconde en uno de los manglares de la Estación Biológica Punta Galeta en la provincia de Colón.
Nurkalida - Indonesia - Sensing the extinction
A better human resources is taking responsibility to take action in increasing the growth of the mangrove.
Ganesh Kathiresan - India - The heron
Shot this photo in the extensive mangroves in Mumbai. The mangroves act as a much needed green lung for the city but they could be cared for a bit better though – many times I have seen waste including plastic bags and other items from Mumbai that ends up in the mangroves. Nonetheless the mangroves are teeming with wildlife including both resident and migratory birds. Grey herons are a common sight. You can clearly see that while flying herons prefer to retract their neck but while standing they hold their head up high.
Dr Sodikin - Indonesia - A type of mangrove that has beautiful outer roots
a type of mangrove that has beautiful outer roots
Subha Chakraborty - India - Stand Alone after Tsunami
This picture was taken from Mayabunder, Andaman, India. This depicts the intensity of the 2004 tsunami over the region, which forced to change the overall landscape in Mayabunder. The reason behind this condition is not done by tsunami weaves bus the upliftment of landmass and retreat of coastline occurred due to 2004 tsunami.
Giulia Puntin - Malaysia - Mangrove viper
Not the most spectacular, but surely a fascinating and thrilling encounter ... beauty hides in every corner among the mangrove roots
Alexa Putillo - Bahamas - Coastal Community Buffer
Mangroves provide numerous ecosystem services to coastal communities, with the signature prop roots of red mangroves serving particular importance. The red mangrove is the first species to meet the turbulent waters of the ocean. They serve as storm buffers by functioning as wind breaks through prop roots battling wave action. These roots stabilize shorelines and fine substrates, reducing turbidity, and enhancing water clarity. Additionally, life flourishes among the maze of prop roots acting as nurseries or feeding areas for economically important fish and invertebrate species. Here, a sunrise illuminates these incredible root structures of a red mangrove in Bimini, Bahamas.
Anik Saha - Bangladesh - Masked Finfoot (Heliopais personatus), local endemic to Sundarban, Bangladesh
Mask Finfoot, the globally endangered bird exists in a very small number in Sundarban, Bangladesh. Their siting is very rare for cryptic nature.
Bremley Lyngdoh - Myanmar - Getting ready to plant the mangrove propagules
Women workers at Thor Heyerdahl Climate Park getting ready to plant the mangrove propagules.
Ari Karlin - USA - Uninvited Settlement
A plastic bottle which was most likely thrown out by a tourist is covered in green algae and floats near a densely packed group of mangroves with crabs and other small creatures nearby.
Ady Kristanto - Indonesia - Urgent Habitat
As the nation's capital, there is always development in Jakarta. This uncontrolled development is increasingly approaching the habitat of wild birds in Jakarta's mangrove forests. Originally the size of the mangrove forest was very large, and now it continues to shrink and fragment.
Iskandar Haka - Indonesia - Since the Early Introduction of Mangrove
through our children we must provide an understanding of the sustainability of mangroves
Lauren Hardiman - Australia - Sunset over Mangroves
Taken in the Daintree, Queensland, Australia. Taken with a Samsung Phone.
Annie Guttridge - Bahamas - Protect Me
I spent hours standing in the same spot waiting for a shark to venture towards me, when finally my patience paid off and a lemon shark (Negaprion brevirostris) bold enough to approach decided to swim within a few feet, allowing me to capture this shot. The image title Protect Me was chosen for both the shark and the important mangroves they, along with an abundance of life, refuge within.
Lili Wei - China - Heritiera littoralis Dryand
This species occurs only in Hainan island in China.
Zahidah zeytoun Millie - Australia - Mangroves in Lake Connewarre
Beautiful shady area between the Mangroves in Lake Connewarre, Barwon Heads. It is our meeting spot where we discuss art and the beauty & importance of the mangroves. We are planning for an art exhibition called 'Mangroves from the Water'.
Kottie Christie-Blick - Bangladesh - Who's There!
Rhesus macaques are always on the lookout for Bengal tigers in the mangrove forests of The Sundarbans, Bangladesh.
Julie Cross - Australia - Under the Mangroves, Boondall Wetlands
Enchantingly quiet, a lone swamp hen picking its way back to shore; reflections settling into water at once filthy and beautiful with its (dis)colouration. Also near Brisbane City Council's Nudgee Waste Transfer Station.
Ali Ilham - Maldives - Greenish Rhizophora mucronata
Its greenish ( Rhizophora mucronata)trees & beautiful calm water which contain fish, crabs & small creatures. its one of rare mangrove in N.kendhikulhudhoo consists of nice ecosystem.
Supratim Bhattacharjee - India - Crabbing
October 30 , 2015 : A woman struggling amidst water to find crabs; crabbing is a profitable source of income for the poor villagers, as it makes attractive cuisines in the West. The southern part of Ganga-Brahmaputra-Meghna delta is a common ground between India and Bangladesh. The Indian delta region stretches around 4000 sq.km approximately. It is covered with the biggest mangrove forest in the world containing 102 swampy islands, out of which only 52 are inhabited by humans. The people here largely depend on the natural resources of the area for their means of livelihood. Global warming is the prime threat to this region. One of the major reasons for this environmental emergency is deforestation. The illiterate, poor and ignorant islanders have vividly cut down bigger trees to collect wood for fuel. They also consider the wood for selling as it is a rich forest product with "Sundari" trees providing the finest variety of wood. Thus, the forest which earlier served as a buffer ground between the wild side of nature and life now has made the soil susceptible to water attacks. As the terror of the environment continues to rage in the form of devastating floods, intense storms, and torrential rains, this land is getting more prone to disaster. The increase in the level of erosion has added to the situation. Sundarbans is seeing 3.14 mm rise in sea levels every year. As the rise in sea levels increases, the salinity in water degrades soil quality causing reduced crop yield and food crisis. Drinking water is also getting increasing obscure here. Additionally, water has already devoured parts of Mousuni and Ghoramara Island. Predictions are saying that a large portion of Sundarbans' island will get submerged in the coming years.
Jenny Stock - Cuba - Welcome Grin
This beautiful and powerful beast in his home, the mangroves of Jardines de la Reina, Cuba.
Kushankur Bhattacharyya - India - Prehistoric
Saltwater Crocodiles are one of the key residents of Indian mangroves and they can grow up to a humongous size of more than 25 feet. During winter mornings they can be seen quite easily busking in the sun. They are enigmatic creatures and of ten do fight among each other. This old individual lost its left forelimb in one such combat.
Soham Bhattacharyya - India - Winter Morning, Mangroves & The Royal Bengal Tiger
Whenever I thought of Sundarbans, this was one of the frames that came into my mind. I really didn't think that, on my first Sundarban trip I'd see the magical scene in my own eyes & capture this celestial frame. Our Mother Nature gave me the opportunity to transform my imagination into reality & to fulfill my dream.
Fairus Mulia - Indonesia - Proboscis monkey and mangrove production forest
a family of proboscis monkey ( big one is a head of the family, an others are wife and children) waiting the sunset at the river bank and look live peacefully in a mangrove production forest at forest concession, Kubu Raya district, west Kalimantan province, Indonesia
Kazuyo Nagahama - Japan - Powerful Mangroves with Local Commons
We could observed these mangroves were living with local people, history and nature. We would like to protect and be living with mangroves.
Rachel M DiPietro - USA - Lunchtime
The Prairie Warbler is a year-round resident of coastal south Florida, where it is commonly found among mangroves. Often first told by its ascending buzzy song, this bird provides a service to the mangroves by harvesting insects that would otherwise defoliate the trees. I caught this one halfway through swallowing a caterpillar on the Guy Bradley Trail at Everglades National Park.
Joseph-Alexandre Gérald - France - South America exist inside the Mangrove
I saw the Latin American continent draw in the mangrove. Taken in Martinique, in the city called Le Diamant in the Taupiniere Mangrove.
Leonardo Cirillo - Brazil - Fiddler crabs - little ecosystem engineers
Despite being small, Fiddler Crabs play a very important role in maintaining the mangrove. the formation of burrows and their feeding method enable a powerful bioturbation, important for the efficient cycling of nutrients. In order for them to play their ecological role, it is necessary to conserve this ecosystem.
Jeyanny Vijayanathan - Malaysia - A local villager collecting cockles at the mangroves for livelihood
Mangrove provides food source and income for the local villagers as its a suitable area for marine life such as cockles to thrive beneath the sandy beach.
Chris Walker - Australia - The Lonely Mangrove Tree at Toondah Harbour
This splendid old mangrove tree is threatened by plans for construction of 3,600 apartments on Ramsar wetlands next to Toondah Harbour in Cleveland, Queensland.
Anil T Prabhakar - Indonesia - The Soul of Nature
Mangroves are expert carbon scrubbers,mangroves pack away carbon faster than terrestrial forests. Every year they hoard some 42 million tons, roughly equivalent to the annual carbon emissions of 25 million cars. So Mangrove Forest conservation is most important revolution has to happened for better purified atmosphere for all of us.
Michael Beattie - USA - Mangrove Dawn
Florida Keys Red Mangroves In The Stillness of Dawn
Jamila Janna - South Africa - Travelling Trio
Snails on trunk of a mangrove species in the Eastern Cape, South Africa.
Sherwin Gozon - Australia - Heart of the Creek
This was an area where crocodiles live and swim this area. It took me awhile to find this heart shape mangroves, At first, I went there because of the water colours are good and with closer look I noticed it was a heart shape.
Moises Rivera Rodriguez - Restauracion
La comunidad se sumo al trabajo de restauracion de un área de manglar con la elaboración de canales para restaura los flujos del agua.
Julio Magalhaes II - Brazil - Mangrove Houses
Ocupação desordenada destrói o mangue.
Karina Scavo Lord - Belize - Mangrove Coral Assemblage
A diverse coral community growing on red mangrove prop roots.
Hermano Melo Queiroz - Brazil - Boat in pristine mangrove
A good place for take a nap
Rob Valentic - Malaysia - Mangrove Pit Viper in situ
A gorgeous adult male Mangrove Viper (Trimeresurus purpureomaculatus) from the extensive mangrove forests on the north-eastern side of Pulau Langkawi, Malaysia. Taken on a Canon EOS 5D Mark 3 DSLR coupled to an EF mount Carl Zeiss 50/2.0 ZE makro-planar lens. Hand held with reflected side-lighting.
Mario A. Cudiamat - Philippines - A mother's story of mangroves with her grandson
Lola Marilyn (Lola is a Filipino term for grandmother) shares her laugh with her grandson, Butog, while she paddles along the mangrove forest. She has been gleaning mollusks for almost four decades and sharing her experiences with her grandson reflects her passionate feelings and gladness in the mangroves.
Ripan Biswas - India - Mangrove builder
Fiddler crabs are most important organism of mangrove forest.They plays an important role to maintain salt-marsh ecology. Their long burrow supply the most needed oxygen in the sediments of the marsh. You can see them working in the number of hundreds on the mud bank. If you sit silently, you can even hear them work. This very important crabs are often overlooked by us.
Benjamín Castillo Elías - Mexico - Bird nesting area in the mangrove
Bird nesting area in the mangrove swamp of the Nuxco lagoon, Guerrero, Mexico
Mariam Ali Fadhil - Kenya - Community engagement in propagules collection
Mangroves propagules are harvested by local community from Ganahola community by shaking off the seedlings branches of Rhizophora mucronata mother tree. Through the help of Big Ship Community Based Organisation the participants were engaged in the process to master how to differentiate species as well as take note of mature seeds.
