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Acknowledgements

The marine realm is far larger than the terrestrial realm; the
Pacific Ocean alone would be able to accommodate all the
continents and have enough space for a second India! Marine
and coastal ecosystems, like all ecosystems, are intricate

webs of complex interactions among macro and microscopic
species of plants, animals and fungi that depend on each other
to survive. Over and above being sources of rich biodiversity,

these ecosystems provide integral benefits to mankind.

Mangroves for the Future (MFF) India, through this series

of publications, intends to pique the curiosity and increase
awareness amongst youth on marine and coastal ecosystems
and serve as an educational resource material in classrooms
in India and around the world.

We would like to thank the Ministry of Environment and
Forests, Government of India and the National Coordination
Body (NCB) India for their support and guidance.

Thanks to Deepak Apte, Digant Desai and Dhritiman
Mukharjee for generously sharing photographs in gratis.

We also would like to thank T S Nayar, Kartik Shanker, R
Jayabaskaran, K Kathiresan, K Sivakumar, Ramamoorthy,
V Vivekandan, Arjan Rajasuriya, D S Jayakodi and Rudolf

Hermes for their scientific inputs.