Mangrove Planting
On Friday the 13th of June 2008, GVI Thailand revisited Ban Klong Suk, the 11th village on the Ao Luk Village Project. Previously the GVI team had assisted the local community plant mangrove seedlings in a degraded wetlands area. Unfortunately most of the seedlings didn't survive. The local Department of Marine and Coastal Resources (DMCR) invited GVI Thailand to help them give it another go with mangrove saplings they had obtained. On Friday morning the GVI team alongside the DMCR team, the local community of Ban Klong Suk, several GVI students, and 95 students from the Ao Luk Primary School worked together to plant more than 1,000 trees. It was a muddy satisfying morning! We are keeping our fingers crossed that these baby mangroves survive to become a healthy and mature mangrove forest.
1 comments:
My fingernails will never be the same because of those mangroves!!!!
But it was worth it. Those mangroves will live on forever, creating a natural barrier and surviving even in really salty water. And making homes for various sealife and mammals.
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