There we were, knee deep in water, crawling through mangrove roots.

我们就在那里，膝盖深的水里，在红树的根部爬行。

You will be in love when you go inside the mangrove.

当你走进红树的时候，就会爱上它。

In the last 40 years, eighty percent of China's mangroves have been destroyed.

在过去40年里，中国百分之80的红树已遭破坏。

In nearby Ghazi Bay, conservation efforts are focused on the local mangrove forests. The mangroves play two vital roles in the local community. They act as a barrier to erosion and they store huge amounts of planet warming carbon.

在附近的巴湾，保护的努力都集中在当地的红树。红树在当地社区扮演着两个重要角色。它们作为侵蚀的屏障，储存了大量的温室碳。

The mangrove's roots anchor the trees against the tidal pull.

红树的根部使树木不受潮汐的牵引。

Number one, it's going to inhibit the natural growth of the mangrove.

第一，它会抑制红树的自然生长。

Still, the waterway and its mangrove trees are home to lizards, turtles and birds.

尽管如此，这条水道及其周围的红树仍是蜥蜴、海龟和鸟类的家园。

Logging has drastically reduced mangrove forests in the country which is regularly battered by storms.

伐木使这个国家的红树急剧减少，而该国经常受到风暴袭击。

Well, this is what happens to a lot of coastal mangrove forests.

这个，就是许多沿海红树所面临的问题。

But then, the mangrove doesn't just rely on its snorkels.

但是，红树不仅仅依靠通气管。

At the delta's mouth, the largest mangrove forest in the world, the Sunderbans.

三角洲河口地带有一片世界上最大的红树，孙德尔本斯红树。

Caribbean mangrove swamps are filled with organic material.

加勒比海红树沼泽充满了有机物。

The park's subtropical climate can support species from around the world, and its borders are full of ecotones — transition areas between habitats — that connect the region's freshwater prairies, rocky pinelands, mangrove forests, and more.

国家公园的亚热带气候能够维系来自世界各地的物种生存，公园边界遍布生态过渡带，即各种生物栖息地之间的过渡区域，这些生态过渡带将当地的淡水草原、岩石松地、红树等连接起来。

The Sundarbans of India and Bangladesh is the world's largest mangrove swamp.

印度和孟加拉的孙德尔本斯是世界上最大的红树沼泽。

Along the coast, people steward thousands of native mangrove plants, which act as carbon sinks, clean up the pollutants of the past, and support biodiversity.

海岸线上，人们管理着数千株红树，它们吸收碳汇、净化污染物、维系生态。

The hope is that these Mangroves on Ambo Beach will grow into a forest like the one that helps defy storm surges in the south of Tarawa.

人们希望安博海滩上的红树能长成一片森，就像塔拉瓦南部的那片森一样，帮助抵抗风暴潮。

It's important for the hammerhead sharks to have healthy mangroves because they use them on the first stages of life, so it will help the sharks to get the size they need to get to the ocean.

拥有健康的红树栖息地对髻鲨至关重要，因为它们在生命的早期阶段会依赖这些地方，这将帮助鲨鱼长大到足够的体型，才能进入大海。

You see, before all this was here, coastlines like this were covered in mangrove forests and healthy coral reefs far offshore, both of which are nature's two best ideas to minimize the impact of hurricanes.

你看，在所有这些存在于这里之前，像这样的海岸线被红树和离岸很远的健康珊瑚礁覆盖，这两者都是自然界最小化飓风影响的两个最佳想法。

Eventually, the remaining organic matter which is now just very tiny particles is taken up through the root system providing nourishment for the mangrove trees.

最后，剩下的有机物，现在只是非常微小的颗粒，通过根系被吸收，为红树提供营养。

" The damage to the environment is devastating, " said Timer Manurung of Auriga. " … Rivers are polluted, mangroves are cut to develop smelter areas, coastal areas and coral are being damaged by the smelters."

“这对环境的破坏是毁灭性的。” 奥里加的蒂默·马努荣说，“河流被污染，红树被砍伐以开发冶炼区，沿海地区和珊瑚正受到冶炼厂的破坏。”