Insights about Mangrove and Fisher Folks at Buenavista, Guimaras

Mangrove Forest is the meeting of land and sea is a hostile habitat, in which it is impossible for many plants and animals to survive, but the 70 species of mangrove trees and shrubs have overcome the obstacles. They provide one of the most important ecosystems on Earth, home to a multitude of endemic and endangered species . Mangroves are also one of the most endangered habitats globally, second only to terrestrial rainforests. ” http://www.zsl.org/conservation/regions/asia/mangrove-philippines/”

Our ever exciting escapade in Guimaras which is the Community Immersion makes a big hall mark in our lives. Learning is not just in school but it was extended to the community with several fisher folks and cooperative officials are involved.
One of the scheduled activities was the Mangrove Planting at the shoreline of Brgy. Avila, Buenavista Guimaras. Strong effort and cooperation of the Brgy. officials and its people, we planted numbers of mangroves with different species in their shoreline. And those avtivities ended up SUCCESS.Striving for the additional information about the people we conducted an interview to the fisher’s folks to earn information about the connection of mangroves to their everyday lives. Toto, the person we interviewed, mentioned that,” mangrove is a great help to us people living here because it is the habitat of the fishes and it prevents the land from the erosion”. Waves in oceans and other large bodies of water produce coastal erosion. The power of oceanic waves is awesome, large storm waves can produce 2000 pounds of pressure per square foot. The pure energy of waves along with the chemical content of the water is what erodes the rock of the coastline. Erosion of sand is much easier for the waves and sometimes, there's an annual cycle where sand is removed from a beach during one season, only to be returned by waves in another. http://geography.about.com/od/physicalgeography/a/erosion.htmOver all The mangroves and the fisher folks will be consider as the mutualism in the symbiotic relationship since it need each other to get equal benefits. But we cannot hide the fact that mangroves provide great help to all the people in the world.

 ~Wilma Torilla BSED3-C BIOLOGY CLUSTER 1