Dong Nai: Mangrove animals are threatened

Many types of forest and aquatic animals in the semi-mangrove forest of Nhon Trach district (Dong Nai) are seriously threatened. The main cause is due to water pollution and destructive fishing.

A corner of mangrove forest ( Photo: VNN )

Nhon Trach district currently has about 10,000 hectares of semi-submerged forest, previously this area has quite rich flora and fauna such as wild boars, monkeys, mink, porcupines, civets, and birds .

In particular, because the forest is located downstream of the Dong Nai River, close to the sea and the influence of the tide, there are hundreds of species of shrimp, fish belonging to fresh, brackish and salt water living here. .

However, to date many types of animals in this area have disappeared. The amount of shrimp and fish is also being depleted due to untreated industrial wastewater and some surrounding areas.

Whenever strong tidal waves push water with large flows from estuaries, estuaries bring polluted industrial wastewater into the forest, making plants and animals affected greatly.

Along the banks of the mangrove canals, many of the trees are illegally harvested by people for timber, firewood, especially water coconut flakes, are considered to be the ideal shelter of birds, animals, shrimps and fish were also cut down by leaves to be used for roofing.

The situation of people using electricity and electricity rapping for fishing is on the rise, while the local authorities have not had effective preventive measures, for example, each year, the commune authorities have taken the goods. dozens of illegal forest resource exploitation cases and assigned to functional branches of the district to handle, but the level of administrative sanctions is not enough to deter violators.

Even many familiar objects are ignored and continue to repeat violations.

According to experts, the characteristics of mangrove forests are very good ability to clean the environment, but the problem of pollution, especially industrial wastewater without treatment exceeds the permitted level, the forest will lose that function. .