1. Mostly evergreen forests that grow in sheltered low lying coasts, estuaries, mudflats, tidal creeks backwaters, lagoons & marshes2. Best examples of ecotone (a transition area b/w two ecosystems)3. Mangroves are halophytes (salt tolerant)4. Produce pneumatophores (hanging roots)5. Exhibit viviparity mode of reproduction. i.e. seeds germinate in the tree itself6. GJ uses direct seed sowing, raised bed plantations, and fishbone channel plantations to restore degraded mangroves7. AP has established Eco-Development Committees and Van Samrakshan Samithi