An adoption of process of growing mangroves like that of Kerala, Goa and Maharashtra, Karnataka has witness a new flocks of tourist at its shores of beauty, growing a mangroves at the site of coastal delta area have proved to be fertile for the state.
Named as mangrove tourist, they come in numbers to pay a visit to a most popular spot of Karwar and ullal; they are seen enjoying a beauty and loves to walk around at the site of mangrove plantation and even looks for a boat ride to see a beauty of nautical and avian life.
Mangroves forest near coastal area of Kanwar and ullal, have enhance after they went up growing a mangrove under a project of green wall 2008. As per the report from a department of forest there are more than 800 hectares of land within estuarine has been covered by a lush of mangrove which in later can be developed as eco tourist spot.
Dr Keshavnath, who has carried delve into research in zooplankton and phytoplankton, suggest planting of mangroves in more areas.
Hasiru kavacha or green armour has been developed as a mangrove plantation area covering a zone of over 300 acres; local village committee had taken an approach to develop the plantation of mangrove. After an introduction of carbon storing we have enhance its plantation, said by said Manjunath Shetty, assistant conservator of forests, Kundapur range.
“If we were to dissolve the carbon contents in the air quickly, we need large stretch of mangrove forests all along the coast. Fortunately, they grow pretty fast,” said Jayakar Bhandary, a botanist who guides various green groups in the coastal areas of Karnataka.
VN Nayak, director, Sub Regional Science Centre at Karwar and member of the Karnataka state environmental report committee 2011, defines mangroves a ‘carbon sink’. As they grow in saline water they shed leaves and recover it quickly making it evergreen again and the leaf that falls on the ground transformed itself into fertile manure the shedding process would happen if the plant ingest carbon and throw out oxygen. And this procedure earned them a name of carbon sink as mentioned by Nayak; he further said a new center of mangrove would facilitate a research and studies related with a fantastic species of plant.
Tourism
Although a department of conservation are not in a favour to bring mangrove under a section of tourism but they also could not deny a fact of excluding it from a eco tourism is a crime, as people loves to circle around the field of mangrove for outsider it has became a wonderful attraction.
As said by Shetty, we do not know what acquires them near the field of mangrove as it call for a risk for a sensitive fish breeding process but their anxiety and their response has given us a idea to develop a finest mangrove eco tourism center.
Importance of mangroves
Fisheries: Mangrove forests are home to a large variety of fish, crab, shrimp, and mollusk species. These fisheries form a necessary spring of food for thousands of coastal communities around the world.
Timber and plant products: as the wood is of prime importance as it resist an insects it is a backbone for many coastal and indigenous communities.
Coastal protection: as it helps to alleviate by trapping sediments as a result it averts erosion from waves and storms.
Tourism: Given the variety of life live in mangrove systems, and their immediacy in many cases to other tourist attractions such as coral reefs and sandy beaches, it is conceivably astounding that only a few countries have started to valve into the tourism latent of their mangrove forests.
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What are mangroves?
Mangroves are a compilation of salt forbearing evergreen trees that grow in humid and sub-tropical coastal milieu and line just about 8% of the world’s coastlines.
As they grows both in land and water they are often termed as floating forest, an amazing roots of mangrove allows it to grow and float as their roots grows in fine muds.
They are unique because they occupy both land and water and are sometimes referred to as ‘floating forests’. This unique aspect of mangroves that enable them to ‘float’ is due to their aerial roots that develop in fine muds or sandy sediments.
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