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

我就在那里，膝盖深水里，在树根部爬行。

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

当你走进树时候，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.

在附近巴湾，保护努力都集中在当地树。树在当地社区扮演着两个重要角色。它侵蚀屏障，储存了大量温室碳。

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

树根部使树木不受潮汐牵引。

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

第一，它会抑制树自然生长。

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

尽管如此，这条水道及其周围树仍是蜥蜴、海龟和鸟类园。

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

伐木使这个国树急剧减少，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，就是许多沿海树所面临问题。

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

但是，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树，孙德尔本斯树。

Caribbean mangrove swamps are filled with organic material.

加勒比海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.

国公园亚热带气候能够维系来自世界各地物种生存，公园边界遍布生态过渡带，即各种生物栖息地之间过渡区域，这些生态过渡带将当地淡水草原、岩石松地、树等连接起来。

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

印度和孟加拉孙德尔本斯是世界上最大树沼泽。

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，人管理着数千株树，它吸收碳汇、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.

人希望安博海滩上树能长成一片森，就像塔拉瓦南部那片森一样，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.

拥有健康树栖息地对双髻鲨至关重要，因它在生命早期阶段会依赖这些地方，这将帮助鲨鱼长大到足够体型，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，像这样海岸线被树和离岸很远健康珊瑚礁覆盖，这两者都是自然界最小化飓风影响两个最佳想法。

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，剩下有机物，现在只是非常微小颗粒，通过根系被吸收，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."

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