Mangroves

Councils are planing to remove mangroves, but will doing so degrade the environment?

The Waiuku Estuary Restoration Trust have spent the last decade removing 25 hectares of mangroves from sediment-choked estuary South of Auckland. Over the next 30 years 75 hectares of mangroves will be removed.
In Tauranga, the Bay of Plenty Regional Council plan to mow the mangroves at Tauranga Harbour.
Mangroves are native plants that are beneficial to the environment. They protect our coastal communities from flooding, they absorb atmospheric carbon which reduces climate change and they are a habitat for fish and native birds, such as the rail.

Initially reported by the nzherald.co.nz and Stuff.