A worker applies healing agents onto the wound of a red-flowered black mangrove mother tree on Sept 9. WANG CHENGLONG/FOR CHINA DAILY
With methods such as filling the trunks with botanical healing agents and supporting racks, forestry workers performed restorations on 13 injured mangrove trees, including the black mangroves.
Based on a report by the China Mangrove Conservation Network, only 14 red-flowered black mangrove mother trees had been identified in the wild as of 2016, including nine at Tielu port and five in Dadun village in Hainan”s Lingshui county.
