I traveled to Mangrove Forest last week. It is located in West Tanjung Jabung Regency and can be reached by a three-hour drive from the capital city of Jambi. This mangrove forest is not in good shape, as being seen from many fallen trees.
The Mangrove forest is generally known as a forest that mainly grows on alluvial mud in coastal areas and river estuaries. Its existence is always influenced by the ebb and flow of the tides. Trees such as api-api (Avicenia sp), pedada (Sonneratia sp), bakau (Rhizophora sp), lacang (Bruguiera sp), nyirih (Xylocarpus sp), and nipah (Nypa sp) are very common here.
The beauty of this area is unique and enchanting. There for the first time, I saw a mudskippers (Periophthalmus sp), a fish that can live on land. Also, the friendly monkeys expected us to give them some food.
Mudskippers are known for their unusual body shapes, preferences for semi-aquatic habitats, limited terrestrial locomotion and jumping, and the ability to survive prolonged periods both in and out of water
Traveling into mangrove forests is not popular here. This can be a pioneer of special interest tourism in Jambi Province. Would it survive? Time will answer.
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