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 and the next big storm hits. to find out how i've come to be a local coconut farmer who agreed to show me his mangrove forest. while it is a proper tree. the tallest man groups here reach twenty five meters and a sturdy forty centimeters in diameter the force was planted after a cycle of nine hundred seventy five. these trees here did you plant them we had audio with aggregate human behavior and i knew. you can imagine these incredibly. violent storms that blow in here and you start to understand how these mature forth actually have the capacity to break that wind and stop some of that storm surge making its way into these settlements and farms and how about maybe some of the other farms where there's no mangroves do you know of any farms that suffer because of the storms ending up there. is it any are you that the dead line and look at your. home and machi