02-15-2011, 06:50 AM
The issue with mangroves in Hawaii is that our native ecosystems did not evolve along with mangroves. So in most other tropical places mangroves are essential to healthy near shore ecosystems, but in Hawaii they are killers of the native near shore ecosystem.
A "weed" is a plant out of place, in Hawaii Mangroves are weeds, no matter how important and helpful they are in other places.
Carol
A "weed" is a plant out of place, in Hawaii Mangroves are weeds, no matter how important and helpful they are in other places.
Carol
Carol
Every time you feel yourself getting pulled into other people's nonsense, repeat these words: Not my circus, not my monkeys.
Polish Proverb
Every time you feel yourself getting pulled into other people's nonsense, repeat these words: Not my circus, not my monkeys.
Polish Proverb