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MANGROVE EDUCATION PROGRAM

MANGROVE EDUCATION PROGRAM IntroductionThe Mangrove Education Program is organized by Universiti Putra Malaysia in collaboration with Malaysian Nature Society for school students and teachers. The Mangrove Education Program is one

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“It is our collective and individual responsibility to preserve and tend to the environment in which we all live" - Dalai Lama
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The goal of our research and this website is to address major objectives from our research organizations and collaborators to connect multi-disciplinary researchers through data and resources sharing on mangrove studies as well to transfer knowledge to the community and provide mangrove IoT e-learning medium through online courses.

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Mangrove Environment

  • Mangrove ecosystems are often unappreciated even they offer value to humanity at no cost. Mangroves create among the most important ecosystems in the world than we realise. The value of these ecosystems can not be overlooked and must be protected and restored. By improving the health of mangroves ecosystems, we reinforce protection for the coastlines, conserve the biodiversity and benefit the local communities that depend on them.

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World of Mangroves

What are mangroves?
The most important types of trees in the world where generally found live in the area where the tide moves in and out along the coasts, estuaries and rivers. These unique trees are able to deal with salt water
Mangroves create among the most important ecosystems in the world than we realise.
They help keep the climate stable, create a vital shelter for various species and mangroves act as a natural defense in prevent storm surges and also preventing erosion

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Internet of Things (IoT)

  • Technology has seen an astonishing process of development and transformation. Connecting sensors to the mangrove will benefit people, business, society, and compile critical information such as soil and weather conditions, as well as water levels which can definitely help to ensure that there will be healthy mangrove forests for future generations to enjoy.

Biodiversity

Mangroves are denoted to offer innumerable crucial ecosystem services for whole wide both for ecological and economic value. Since mangroves located at the protected area, mangrove trees has unique characteristic such as prop roots, knee roots and wax leave to survive at muddy area. These characteristic act as breeding grounds and nursery site for shrimps, fish, crabs, shellfish, birds and others. These animals has unique adaptation to live in mangrove for example mudskipper has pelvic fins to crawl on mudflat during low tide, fiddler crabs has big claw to protect from predators and others.

Mangroves forests provide habitats for thousands of species. The muddy tidal provide a buffer zone that protects the land from wind and wave damage. Mangroves and animals are work together to sustain the ecosystems in mangrove. Mangrove forests are highly productive ecosystems with high rates of mangroves trees production and most of the carbon is lost by decomposition in this area. Mangroves also offer protection from catastrophic event for instance shoreline erosion, tsunami, and bioaccumulation for pollution. Regardless of their significant, mangrove is vanishing due to climate changes and human exploitation.

Innumerable mangrove forest provides incredible productive food web. As the part of forest decay, it’s become sources of nutrients for invertebrates and scavengers. Tides circulate nutrients and decaying matters as food for many small organism for instant polychaete, anemones, jellyfish and fry. Thus, filter feeders for example oyster will be restored and seabed will be established. Mangrove forest also offer resources for human survival. During low tide, people can walk across the flat tidal to collect shellfish, crabs, octopus, shrimp and others. At high tide, fry will be invaded and accumulated at protective roots. Thus, people will catch the fish for protein sources and economic value. Forest tree will be cutting down as main sources of fuel, woods for building house, boat and jetty. 

Socio-economic

The community of Kg Sijangkang

Instead of just clearing up the garbage in the illegal dumping area inside the mangrove, the community heroes of Kg Sijangkang have also successfully turn this unsanitary and unsightly area into an area that can benefit more people and nature itself.

Other than the establishment with their own effort, to maintain this park in the long run they volunteer themselves to do all the work chores.

The oldest committee member of this park is 75 years old and the youngest is between 30 to 40 years old. This different generation age range is what makes it complimentary in developing this mangrove park.

The development of this park gains so many supports from the villagers in terms of building material such as woods for the boardwalk.

This awe-inspiring effort is what makes Kg Sijangkang community a good example of the positive community that work together towards a common goal that is to conserve and sustain the natural environment that they live in.

Water Quality

For meaningful analysis and management decisions, the monitoring of generated data is crucial.

Its main asset is that it uses collective opinion to establish a system which can be applied more objectively.

The monitoring of water quality is important for the implementation of national water pollution control programmes, for the assessment of the effect of human activities on water quality, and for the formulation of water resource management strategies and policies.

In-situ water quality parameters to monitor by using IoT:

  • pH
  • Temperature
  • BOD

Robotic

  • Technology can help create a positive impact to mitigate ecological degradation, promote sustainable development, build green infrastructure and increase biodiversity as-well-as resilience of the coastal ecology. Robots extend the scope of IoT applications where they both rely on sensors to understand their environment, rapidly process large streams of data and decide how to respond.

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Climate Change

Offsetting carbon emissions is an essential component of climate action, as carbon dioxide leads to global warming and sea level rise. One such incredible contribution to fight climate change comes from mangrove ecosystems. Mangrove forests serve a critical role in climate regulation and climate change mitigation, serving as highly effective carbon storage sites than other forests. Climate change impacts, such as storms and rapid sea level rise, are additional factors that lead to reduction in mangrove forests.