A healthy mangrove forest in eastern Indonesia serves as a nursery to juvenile fish and plays an important ecological role.
Mangrove forest, often called flooded forests, are extremely important as a buffer between land and sea. They are intimately tied to coral reefs and sea grass meadows.
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Location: Wayag, Raja Ampat, Papua, Indonesia, Pacific Ocean
Photo credit: © Ethan Daniels / Alamy / Afripics
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