1.   At one extreme are pure, natural ecosystems like an alpine meadow or a mangrove swamp.

2.   Its mangrove swamps are rapidly being wiped out by pollution from the satellite towns that are springing up along the shore.

3.   The hamlet was a small and simple place, with a mangrove swamp at its western end.

4.   Here it had a devastating effect on seagrass beds and mangrove swamps.

5.   Much of the three thousand tonnes of charcoal he imports every year comes from mangrove swamps near the Indonesian coast.

6.   At an interactive area within a mangrove swamp, visitors can view unusual species like the upside-down jelly and the archerfish.

7.   Bird rookeries in mangrove swamps stand silent.

8.   A lush, tropical region of palm and banana trees, rice paddies and mangrove swamps, it was considered among the most dangerous parts of Vietnam.

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