deforestation thirty five percent of the world's mangroves have already been lost and here in the irrawaddy delta only sixteen percent will bijan cover is left and in myanmar where local innovative project is combining grassroots conservation state they are drawing technology to take mangrove regeneration to new heights. jamar is vulnerable to cyclons which strike every few years in two thousand and eight the worst ever cycle nargis claimed more than one hundred thirty thousand lives. experts now believe that mangroves hold the key to saving thousands of lives when the next big storm hits. find out how i've come to be a local coconut farmer who agreed to show me his mangrove forest. these are proper trees. the tallest man groups here reached twenty five meters and a sturdy forty centimeters in diameter the force was planted after a cycle one hundred seventy five. these trees here did you plant them we had to do with. my. thought. you can imagine these incredibly. violent storms that blew in here and you start to understand how these mature forth actually have the capacity to break that wind and s