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COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
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forest
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The mangrove forest in the region has already been reduced by half.
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Chokoria Sunderban, an 18,000-hectare mangrove forest in Cox's Bazar, has been totally destroyed.
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There are the giant mangrove forests at the mouth of the Ganges, where a few Bengal tigers still flourish.
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Specialized intertidal communities of enormous significance are the mangrove forests of the tropics.
swamp
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The region's wetlands, mangrove swamps and coral reefs are also seen as under threat.
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At one extreme are pure, natural ecosystems like an alpine meadow or a mangrove swamp .
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Here it had a devastating effect on seagrass beds and mangrove swamps .
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The hamlet was a small and simple place, with a mangrove swamp at its western end.
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Its mangrove swamps are rapidly being wiped out by pollution from the satellite towns that are springing up along the shore.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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At one extreme are pure, natural ecosystems like an alpine meadow or a mangrove swamp.
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Behind the mangroves lay low scrub, lagoons, and then narrow flats planted with sugar cane.
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Navigation here means island-hopping, sheltering from any sudden storms, and not losing sight of the shore, lined with mangroves.
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The mangrove forest in the region has already been reduced by half.
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The outlook for this once beautiful natural coast, its mangroves and marine life looks bleak.
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There are the giant mangrove forests at the mouth of the Ganges, where a few Bengal tigers still flourish.
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When the tide goes out it leaves mud that the mangroves are trying to colonise.