1.   Coral growth and the accretion of sediments in coastal mangroves will compensate.

2.   A few thousand miles away, vast areas of coastal mangrove swamps have been dying on the coast of Senegal.

3.   Shrimp farms in the Philippines, Ecuador and Thailand have displaced coastal mangroves, the nursery grounds for much of the sea.

4.   The environmental activists had come to Ecuador to protest the destruction of its coastal mangrove swamps by the shrimp fisheries.

5.   The slick has also reached coastal mangrove swamps and wetlands.

6.   A tiger killed two Bangladeshi fishermen in a coastal mangrove forest in southwest Bangladesh, the official BSS news agency reported Sunday.