51.   On Friday, emergency coordinator Col. Tokam Kanene announced that the effort to retrieve bodies from the mangrove swamps around Sissano lagoon will be halted.

52.   Reports were emerging slowly from the scene of the clashes, a web of mangrove swamps and salt-water channels where there are no roads, cars or telephone lines.

53.   Refugees walked for days through crocodile-infested mangrove swamps and jungle to reach the border with Senegal.

54.   Some mangrove swamps or estuaries -- critical natural habitat for shrimp, crabs, fish and plant life -- have been eliminated by commercial shrimp farms and by development.

55.   The chemicals affected the mangrove swamps, and the center said great numbers of sea creatures, especially shrimp, were expected to die in coming weeks.

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

57.   The EPA has requested the removal of scrap metal and contaminated soil from parts of the dump that border mangrove swamps.

58.   The men ran into a mangrove swamp, he added, but agents seized a long boat and two trucks, which were believed to have been stolen.

59.   The oil washed over protected mangrove swamps, which ecologists said would take at least a decade to recover.

60.   The massive earth works had taken its toll on the mangrove swamp, which are traditional breeding grounds for fish.