Josh Clark

Hey, and welcome to the podcast.

I'm Josh, and there's Chuck, and there's Jerry over there.

So let's get to it while we're talking about mangroves, everybody.

Mangroves, gather around while we talk about mangroves.

It's a great tree.

It's a good favorite tree to have.

It's an amazing tree.

Like I said, it's maybe one of the best trees to have as your favorite tree because there are very few trees that are this amazing, Chuck.

Man, and we're talking mangroves, and we should say mangroves aren't necessarily like a species or even a family of tree.

One of the other things that makes them such a cool tree to have as a favorite is that there's something like 80 or 90 species of them, and they're not genetically related in every case.

Instead, biologists classify them by their ability to survive and even thrive in salty water,

That in soil that has little to no oxygen, which are two things that most trees can't do.

And that's just the tip of the iceberg and what makes mangroves so amazing.

Yeah.

And there's, I want to say a lot of them.

It's really not, though.

I think they make up like 1% of the forests of the world, mangrove forests are.

But it's still 85,000 square miles, which is a pretty decent amount of area for, you know, one kind of tree.

It's about the size of the state of Arkansas.

And the largest mangrove forest in the world is at the mouth of the Ganges near the Bay of Bengal.