Restoring degraded habitats

Conservation involves restoring areas that have been degraded by human activity or by natural catastrophes such as flood, fire, hurricane, typhoon and earthquake

• this can be done on a small scale when a farmer decides to plant trees on land that is no longer needed for food production or has been degraded by overuse

• mangroves are an extremely rich ecosystem that provides valuable protection to coaslines from storms
• many mangrove forests have been cut down to make way for coastal developments
• areas like Bangladesh have high diversity and is at risk of rising sea levels and planting mangrove is thought likely to offer some protection against the effects of this
• mangrove forests proviide important 'ecosytem services'
• they reduce coastal erosion by reducing the effects of strong…