Everybody has his/her own way to celebrate Earth Day. When you take something from the earth, you must put something back. So, on Earth Day 2015, I planted mangroves and taking plastic garbage around the plantation area as "give back" for all the planet gives me.

Mangrove forests are home to a large variety of fish, crab, shrimp, and mollusk species. This makes mangrove forests important to ecosystem and biodiversity. The dense root systems of mangrove forests trap sediments flowing down rivers and off the land. This helps stabilizes the coastline and prevents erosion from waves and storms. Every tree planted will assist in stabilizing the climate because it absorb green house gas.  

Since I live in coastal region, I consider mangroves as vital tree that has to be preserved. Besides, planting mangroves, I also cleaned up the area of plantation from plastic garbage. For your information, plastic is major threat for mangroves in Bali, hundreds of mangroves have died due to plastic. 

I do not stop just by planting because planting is not enough. The vital part is nurturing my planting. Next two week, I am going to check my planting replace with the new one if one of them is died and take the plastic garbage again until they can sustain themselves on their own.