#Coastal

A mangrove is a clan of trees that mistakes the ebb and flow of tides for self-expression, staking their claim between sea and land with tangled roots. Celebrated as coastal saviors, they are in reality mud-bound champions fighting ruthless survival battles. Spreading viviparous seedlings into the tide, they expand their muddy empire like greedy colonizers. Boasting about carbon absorption while upheaving sediment with complex roots, they act like black magic environmentalists. Claiming harmony with nature, they often send mud into homes and fishing grounds, cunningly dragging locals into the mire.