By Jen from Save PNG is raising funds for the re-vegetation of Mangroves at Taurama Beach. Her aim is to pot up to 1,500 mangroves so she needs all the hands she can get to assist. This will all happen next week on the 21st March, so if your in POM and you can get off work help her out. If you don’t have transport meet up at the Ela Beach basket ball court at 8.30am and she’ll have transport organised for you.
Yes, I’ll be down there as well…come to think of it the closest I’ve been to any vegetation recently is the lettuce in my chicken sandwhich yesterday. Also to help her fund raise for the event go along to the Moresby Arts Theatre to watch Al Gore’s ‘An inconvenient Truth‘
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March 15, 2007 at 4:44 am
Carolyn
I’m so coming! Hooray!
March 15, 2007 at 4:49 am
Emmanuel
Goodie!! The more the merrier…
March 15, 2007 at 6:41 am
Danger
I have the DVD of this movie but still havnt got round to watching it. Apparently it won an oscar though. By all reports its worth a look, go see it.
Good work on the mangroves Jen. I’d be there if I could.
March 15, 2007 at 6:44 am
Emmanuel
I’m sure you can be there in Spirit…
March 15, 2007 at 11:27 am
Badira
Hey wish i was there doing the planting, interesting thing I found out in philippines and hey guess what, in a place called Puerto Galera (a famous tourist spot), the provincal government passed a law that all newly weds must plant a mangrove tree on their wedding day, if you didn’t plant..sori no wedding certificate…i was wow..something to think about ay… :), would it work for PNG?? don’t know…maybe buai trees or coconut will work..lol..but great yea Great Job Jen!..keep it up, need any scientific info..drop me a note…might help.
Oh and yes something i posted on the my homepage, just thought you might wanna have a read.
kolwan
(no login) Mangroves and Fish stocks
No score for this post March 13 2007, 6:23 PM
http://www.vortexpng.com
Its world wide knowledge that without appropriate coast planning or for that matter “Coastal Engineering” , coastal retreat due to sealevel rise will be accelerated by the human induced changes on the movements of near shore waves…meaning chopping down mangroves, building jettys, habours, roads near the sea etc.. will alter nearshore waves, Near shore waves are very important for sand accumalation and nutrient circulation.. which i might add is especially important for the many seafoods that we enjoy most…red emperors, lobstars, crabs, prawns..yummy..lol. Anyway, on my previous vist to thailand, I observed all of the mangroves are downed for fish farms, same in philippines…now they are having alot of problems with water shortage, contimation of natural marine habitats and ofcourse…beautiful beaches become endangered. As for Fiji, resorts are doing the damage while the land owners are “compensated lavishly” etc.
And in PNG..typical example is HB..you may remember the road from HB going to Badihagawa Highschool… once a place with lots of mangroves.. now it is all houses and wasteland..people have chopped them down for fireword, piers, and only God knows for whatever else..recently I have heard that there is an outbreak of a particular species of star fish know as Crown-of-thorn(COTS) starfish in Fairfax bay (where HB is located).
This usually happens because lots of food waste, raw sewerage etc.. is dumped into the sea from HB, city, coatal villages etc…all these waste increases the Nutrients going into the sea…so..means a lot more food for microscopic marine plants that float in the sea water colum know as phytoplanktons, their population increase, oxgen intake increase from the water..carbondioxide decrease, they grow old and die and fall to the bottom..bacteria activity increases at the sea bed…so you can imagine many activities take place…as a result..water temperature change and the condition is ideal for COTS bloom…COTS start eating the reefs, which distroys the habitat of reef fishes etc…fish decline and finally price of red emperor, crabs, prawns etc. increases.. so back to the idea of mangroves…the question is where do mangroves come in?..mangrove is known as a filter..as tide goes in, it filters the excess nutrients, meaning it traps them…so when tide comes back out excess nutrient have been removed so the balance is maintained…so..mangroves not only preserves beaches but also maintains our fish supply
cheers
kolwan (Badira)
March 15, 2007 at 11:31 am
Emmanuel
Cool Badira, thanks for sharing. Not a bad idea for newly Weds, might just work or maybe even drivers licences.
Jen if your reading this, Badira works on the scientific measurement of Global warming.