Mangrove vegetation covering swampy coasts of tropical regions représentes a unique habitat. It includes trees and shrubs able to withstand temporary inundation by sea water and tolerating high concentrations of salt in the environment. The mangrove formation protect coast from erosion, accumulate sediment, aiding land expansion, and provides the transitional zone between land and aquatic habitats. But intensive logging which depleted the mangrove formations in the last decades could bring about irreversible destruction of these ecosystems.