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Training Module 5 - Mangrove Management
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Impression of the field visit by Cynthia Ofokansi
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A field trip was made by some members of Module 5, Mangrove Management,
to the coastal areas of West Ruimzeight across the West Demerara river on this
day. The GPS co-ordinates of this first location were N 365922, E 755743. The
members were Mr. Chandra Mukhie Balliram, Mr. Saeeed Mohamed, Mrs. Trudie Clarke, Mr.
Owen Bovell, Mr. Philip DaSilva, Ms. Vilma Panday, Mr. Adrian Ramnarain, Mr.
Samondra Boodhoo, Mr. Dianand Somwaru, Mr. Amir Samad, Ms. Cynthia Ofokansi and Ms.
Cathelijne Van Haselen. The team members parked their vehicles of the road landed at the site between 9 and 10 o' clock. We entered a wood land and walked for a time period of 30 minutes a distance of approximately 100 meters. The area had been traversed by the UG student Andrea Marie during her visit for her 1997 thesis project. The density of the forest increased as we traversed inwards, towards the shore area, and also the marshiness or wetness of the ground. The plant community mainly consisted of the Black mangrove (Avicennia germinans) and the Red Mangrove (Rhizophora mangle). Mr DaSilva gave a short lecture in the interior of the forest, with trees that had grown up to 10 metres in height, towering high above us, the mosquitoes and black ants on us, and of course the stifling heat of the forest interior. | ||||||||||
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The lecture was on the following:The different species, growth, regeneration and propagation, protection of mangrove forests, We noticed the wildlife that depend on the mangrove for their existence huge termite nests on some trees, crabs burrowing deep in the soil. He noted the different leaf structure: long conical leaf of the black mangrove, the broader leaf of the red mangrove, their method of reproducing: by dropping their small oval green seeds on the ground. Some of the leaves were spotted with black because of some plant affliction. He noticed the regeneration of the mangrove forest (different species had grown in places that were sparse during his previous visit years ago) and their method of propagation was also different because different species were crowded in one area. The mangroves had pneumatophores (long respiration aerial roots) acting as silt trap spread around on the marshy ground. | ||||||||||
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After the lecture we returned to the cars on the road and then moved to a cremation site.
The GPS-co-ordinates were N 364519, E 756887. Here the
adversities (human-causes) that affect the mangrove were noted: a vast area had
been cleared for the site event and the tree barks used for the cremation could
have been from the mangrove species. We passed the cremation area, walked a few
metres approximately towards the shore and came to a shore where the natural
adversities that affect the mangrove were noted: the long and powerful wave
action had crashed down some of the trees at the foreshore and bleached the
trunks that lay on the ground. Intensive sediment deposits were noted on the
shore the mangrove species behind the foreshore were still thriving. We noted that the density of the forest increased as the traversed inwards, towards the shore area, and also the marshiness or wetness of the ground increased. After about 10 minutes of looking and contemplating at the shore, we made our way back to the cars, and while the people for the cremation event were arriving in abundance to attend to the dead, we left the site and by noon were all on our way back to Georgetown to attend to the matters of the living. Presentation on mangroves during the site visit (by Phillip Da Silva) Note on Survey Programme (by Marion van Maren) Sampling table of parameters (by Vimla Roopchand Panday) Mangrove Management Data Collection Sheet (10 May 2004) Mangroves in Guyana: photographs (10 May 2004) Back to Training Module 5 |