Vox Populi:

Half of the world’s mangroves are in danger of disappearing. Ensuring their survival is essential to Caribbean resistance movements.

There is a popular saying among organizers across movements: “They wanted to bury us, but they didn’t know we were seeds.” From the seed, I arrive at the mangrove. According to the Science Museum of Puerto Rico (Museo de Ciencias de Puerto Rico), mangroves are tropical or subtropical forests between water and land that “are formed by trees and shrubs adapted to environmental conditions such as floods due to tides, soils where there is little air circulation, little sand, and high salinity.”

The mangrove seed is born suspended in the air and attached to its mother plant. When it matures, it separates and falls into the water where it rides the tide until it finds a place in the ocean depths where it can take root—until it is ready to reach toward the air again.

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