Story: Estuaries
Over the last 150 years, Auckland’s Mangemangeroa estuary has been rapidly filled with sediments from the surrounding hillsides. Mangrove shrubs, shown here as a fringe between the land and sea, colonise the intertidal muds. In this estuary the area covered by mangroves increased by 50% between 1955 and 2000.
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Photograph by Leanne Tamaki
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