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Mangroves plays a vital job in our livelihood, they are responsible for guarding our coasts, they stabilize our land and defend our shores against damage from the ocean, also protects our reefs and lagoons from harmful runoff and pollution.

Low islands in the Pacific Ocean that are far from continets started as underwater vocanoes. The lava from the volcano rose above the ocean surface became an island with high hills or mountains.

There are low and high islands in the Pacific Ocean. All islands have some of the same environments (kinds of places such as coral reff, open ocean and forests)

This book describes differen tenvironments on Pacific high islands. This book has pictures of these environments, and the plants and animals that live there.

This book describes differen tenvironments on Pacific high islands. This book has pictures of these environments, and the plants and animals that live there.

Among the various useful trees on Nauru, only two are worth mentioning for the standard of living of the Islands: the coconut palm and the pandanus tree (epo). The benefit of both trees is almost comparable. Whereas the coconut palm supplies the natives with their daily nourishment in the form of nuts and palm wine, the entire pandanus tree and all of its parts can be made use of in the household.

Anyone who has been lucky enough to travel the calm islands of the Pacific Ocean, especially those in the north-east where an almighty hand randomly scattered a number of islands of all sizes in the choppy sea, is seldom to have approached one of these without having sighted several canoes, resting by the reef or drifting with the current, carrying Islanders on the hunt for their 'daily bread'.

Biodiversity on Fiji's mangroves