Experts believe that this fascinating and ancient family of trees originated in Southeast Asia. These plants then moved to tropical marine environments around the world via floating seeds. They are distinctive trees tangled with roots rising from the mud. These are the mangroves that live along beaches and rivers in Tropical and subtropical regions.

They are trees known since ancient times in the history of nature, where they grow south of the coasts of the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden, because of their superior ability to adapt the conditions of drought and high salinity prevailing in the region, where these environments constitute an important part of the coastal plant life system, and they are called halophytes,It adapts to life in harsh coastal conditions. It has a complex salt filtration system and a complex root system to deal with salt water immersion and wave action.

It is spread in several areas on the Red Sea coast, as it spreads in Hurghada, Abu Minqar Island, and Safaga Island, as well as in Wadi El-Gamal, Hamataqa areas, Elba beaches, and some remote islands. The mangrove tree is of unique beauty that distinguishes it from the rest of the trees. At first glance, it looks like an ordinary green tree, but when we approach it, we are surprised by its forked roots like spider legs, and what surprises us most is that these roots sink into the salty sea water.

The mangrove forests are home to a large number of organisms including crabs, lobsters, snakes, foxes, raccoons, hundreds of thousands of bats, and a wide variety of fish and bird species. There are 80 species of mangroves found, 60 of which live on coasts located between low tides,Notably, mangroves once covered three-quarters of the coasts of the tropical world, with Southeast Asia having the greatest diversity, and only 12 species live in the Americas.

It seemed that the people of Egypt had used mangroves for many uses such as building boats, and in the production of charcoal, and they are trees that are often attracted to insects, especially bees, mangroves are very important to the coastal ecosystems in which they live. Physically, they serve as a buffer between marine and terrestrial communities and protect beaches from wind, wave and flood damage.

It has environmental importance, as it acts as a trap for sediment and pollutants that flow into the sea, and acts as an additional barrier to silt and mud that may choke coral reefs, Mangroves are characterized as growing as a small extended group of small forests. Expansion of the mangrove development project contributes to reducing the risks of climate change.

Mangrove environments are under threat due in large part to the clearing of land for shrimp farms in Latin America and Southeast Asia,Some mangroves grow pencil-like roots out of the moist, dense ground like diving's breathing tubes, called pneumococcus. These breathing tubes allow the mangroves to withstand the daily floods brought on by the tides.

Mangroves provide breeding grounds for many fish; Where these fish use the roots of mangroves as a shelter when they are young, and then move in the open ocean when they are adults, and there are three types of mangroves: red mangroves, white mangroves and finally black mangroves. It is easy to distinguish between these types because there are differences between them. Some mangrove varieties are more resistant to salt than others.

1- Red mangroves, which grow along the coasts, are the hardest of the three major mangrove species.
2- Black mangroves, otherwise known as dark mangroves, this type grows at slightly higher altitudes than red mangroves and has access to more oxygen.
3- White mangrove trees, and this type grows at higher altitudes than red and black.