Biology

Mangroves one of the essential plant to provide the perfect habitat, food and reproductive ground for many marine and terrestrial animals were destroyed during this defoliant. Mangroves did not only provide food for animals but it also provided food for us human. And that's not all it also provided the local people charcoal, timber and fuel wood. With the chemical sprayed the soil is chemically changed giving it a different pH so plant would not be able to grow in these conditions. Mangroves also provide protection against tides, waves and water current so with out this plant coastal area becomes flooded and cause riverbank erosions.
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There were a slight raise in number of animals such as fish and molluscs because of the dead leaves that the mangrove provided. But as the mangrove disappeared as the result of the chemical spray, the number of animals also start to decrease. Indirectly it also affect the life style of the people who lived in those areas as they were dependant on these natural resource as a living.