I love this. This is just so cool.
These root systems are amazing.
Bonk
Hey everyone and welcome back to Eden's vlog.
Our purpose of the vlogs is to share with you the adventures
of how we go about planting trees and saving lives
Today we're going to look at mangroves, not mangoes
Mangroves are very unique species group of trees that represent only about 1%
actually less than 1% of the world's forests.
But their impact is far more than 1%.
Eden is working in Madagascar Mozambique and Indonesia with mangroves
and today we're actually going to go to the work in Indonesia
and fully explore what it looks like
When you're dealing with mangroves the first challenge is just arriving.
You jump in a leaky old boat.
You take your your boat ride to the edge.
And then you begin to slog through mud,
and the mud is thick.
It can go up to your ankles your knees your waist, and sometimes you literally have to be pulled out.
There's been a couple of times when I've had to be pulled out with a rope
And it's not just me because I'm a chubby little guy.
It is just dangerous and so our mangrove workers,
They have to work in teams because if you get stuck in the mud literally
You have to be pulled out before the tide comes back in or you will drown
Neighbors, here we are on Biack island Indonesia
standing in one incredible ecosystem,
the mangroves of Indonesia.
This is not Jessica Alba, this is Sonaradia Alba.
Also, here are the rhizophora.
Okay, stop I mispronounced the name of the mangrove species.
This is Sonaradia Alba.
In my defense, there are so many mangrove species in Indonesia.
It's the highest diversity of mangroves on the planet.
I'm trying to pick up on this.
These mangroves develop these incredible root systems that allow
juvenile fish, juvenile shrimp, all kinds of breeding ocean life
to hide in there and to escape predation.
So they're essential to the well-being of the ocean that's behind us.
But also in here is a lot of of sea grass
that's just all over the place. There's wonderful seagrass
and all of this provides habitat for crabs and shrimp and baby fish
that are essential to the health of the ocean.
Also, this is the most carbon absorbent natural system on the planet.
Massive amounts of carbon are sequestered in that in the sand and the mud
of these wonderful mangrove systems.
So it's really fun.
Part of the early on process is evaluating
what can be accomplished at a specific mangrove site,
and you can't achieve that just from a satellite image or a flyover
or even a boat drive by.
You have to go in and see what species are there,
the condition of literally the mud.
All of these factors along with
evaluating the various zones and the various species that need to specifically be planted correctly
are essential to the health and future of the project
So during the course of my lifetime,
roughly 60 years, about 40% of the world's mangroves have been cut down.
Primarily to establish shrimp farms.
So if you love shrimp, you got to consider
you might be contributing to the demise of mangroves.
It's also the poor man's lumber.
It grows in salt water so it's very hard salty wood.
Termites don't eat it.
So at last a long time it becomes the poor man's lumber
for their houses, their fences,
their basic building material for so many things.
So if things don't change the percentage of
mangrove forest in the world is going to continue to go down down down.
Eventually you begin to
decimate the reef systems of the world and the open oceans.
Sustainable fisheries become less and less productive
and impoverished people are going to be the first and hardest hit.
So when I go into a new area like Indonesia or new area like Mozambique and
and see an estuary that's been virtually totally denuded
I'm taken back to what our work in Madagascar looked like,
twelve years ago and what it looks like now.
I know that I know that I know
you can go from
an obliterated denuded nothing but mud estuary
to a beautiful thriving mangrove ecosystem
in less than a decade.
And it's absolutely astronomical.
It's not just hope it's real.
So to launch actual mangrove planting efforts,
is fairly straightforward.
You start by clearing the estuary of all the deforestation debris.
So they don't knock over the young trees.
And they collect massive numbers of propagules in
gunnysacks they bring them back to the village.
They count and sort them by species.
They can head out at low tides and begin to hit the mud and plant the trees.
These folks are already in a place where they're planting
6,000 trees each
and that cumulative effect of
40 to 50 workers per month
Just begins to crank out whole forest and relatively short amount of time.
And I know that I know that I know
that in 10 years,
That's going to turn into a forest and
a beautiful mature mangrove system will be restored.
So thank you again for watching
if you haven't already done, so please subscribe and share with your friends.
At this point we're gonna move out of the mud and focus on mangroves,
to an area that I'm passionate about
the ocean, the coral reef systems,
and Scuba diving!
So let's jump overboard!
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