Ryan Kellman

And that's mostly because the stuff that falls into the water and gets trapped around mangrove roots...

decomposes really slowly.

So all that carbon is trapped in the mangrove forest for a really long time.

Exactly.

So mangrove forests are basically punching way above their weight when it comes to trapping planet warming gases before they can make it into the atmosphere.

Yeah.

They are amazing for fish.

Yeah, fish love to lay their eggs around mangrove roots.

So I called up a scientist to talk about this one.

Her name is Radhika Bhargava Gajre, and she's a coastal geographer and a mangrove expert at the National University of Singapore.

I just want to make sure you caught that.

The majority of the fish we eat start in mangrove roots.

In the world.

Yeah.

Yeah.

And it's not just Cochresna where people cut down mangrove trees.

You know, a lot of people around the world want to live on the coast.

There's a lot of pressure to clear cut these swampy mangrove forests to make way for humans.

Half of mangrove forests are at risk of collapse by 2050, according to the U.N.

Yeah, and since 2003, Keogh's village and a neighboring village, they've worked together to protect more than 145 acres of mangrove forest along...