Forests for Water and Soil conservation

              AERIAL PHOTO MAPPING OF

RODRIGUES

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(7 SLIDE VIEW PHOTOS DOUBLE CLICK ON THE ABOVE TO START AND ENJOY)

RODRIGUES A TINY SOUTHERN ISLAND FORMED AFTER VOLCANIC ERUPTION ABOUT 10 MILLIONS YEARS AGO AND SITUATED IN THE  NORTH EAST OF NEIGHBORING MAURITIAN ISLAND  IN THE INDIAN OCEAN

IN THE NORTH AT A VILLAGE CALLED ROSEAUX CLOSE TO PORT MATHURIN TOWN

   
"Roseaux peak" in the North guarded by an Endemic adult Pandanus heterocarpus commonly named as "Vacoas ".It uses as anti-erosion agent, provides shade,acts as wind break and provides high quality fibres for Handicraft which is one of the Rodriguan Economic Pillars. Those igneous stones reveal the island's volcanic nature....

THE BEAUTY OF NATURE:

Sun set beams observed (January 2016) from a center village of the 19 km long Rodrigues Island which population's, nowadays amounted to about 40,000 - excluding some more than 15,000 individuals, emigrated  to Australia, Canada, France, England among others but however ,the majority of them are established in Mauritius(mauritius.net/index.php) .....a Republic State of which Rodrigues became one of its Dependencies, after world war 2 in 1968, year of Mauritian Independence.

                 

      Rodrigues ^   island of Ecology

Ten years old son enjoying school holidays  in a dry-summer water course December 2015

BLOGGER'S QUOTE:

We belong to nature and we borrow the 

world ,mainly planet Earth, from our 

children.....so keep on united to ensure 

our kind survival AND PERSISTENCE OF 

OUR EXISTENCE,,,,,,,,THE HUMAN AND 

LIVING THING SURVIVAL;'''''''',,,,,,,,,, 

xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Forest and Rivers xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

TREES, SHRUBS, GRASSES,UNDERGROWTH 

VEGETATION FOR SOIL AND WATER CONSERVATION

ESCARPMENT OF A RIVER OYSTER-BAY AT A PLACE CALLED PAVE LA BONTE

Rivers are vital natural water courses which need 

to be managed with high care. Catchment areas 

comprise Forests areas which maintain both soil and 

water conservation  and provide suitable habitat for 

various Biodiversity.On both sides of the river banks, 

Catchment areas normally extend up to mountain or 

hill peaks and the sloping areas fringing them need 

to be permanently maintained under forest covers 

and are more effective when such covers are 

composed of multi-storeyed canopy. 

Water is life essential which means more than 

important.Water shortage is not that such alarming 

issue,rather its management is questionable. No 

deaths in Rodrigues have ever been related to thirst -

due to lack of water....truth is that a considerable 

percentage of the eight thousand  Rodriguan 

families/households are under the poverty line.

Human rightly , each citizen should be provided with 

basic needs and governmental actions should be 

taken to fairly ensure that each and every family be 

supported instead of assisted with a minimum of a 

water tank as the habit of rainwater collection is in-

borne amongst the highly amicable society. 

Pacifically, we need to be united to ensure water 

conservation and communities could start by 

removing alluvial soil from river floors rendering such 

a life-giving liquid available for all and at the same 

time recuperate wash away top soil due to both high 

landscape reliefs and during frequent short heavy 

rain falls over the various high landscape reliefs of 

such a paradise place. Banning of plastic bags world-

widely modeled such a tiny 116 squared kilometer 

island forming the Mascarenes Island with closer Mauritius 

island and relatively more distant Reunion island,,,,,,

STRONG WAVES INDICATE THE CLOSEST 

EASTERN REEFS  AT TROU D'ARGEN- AN EMBLEMATIC 

VISITORS' PLACE OF CHOICE

"Trou D'Argen"      World wide class Natural aquarium-like beach in the  East of Rodrigues
Socially peaceful

STEP TOGETHER FORWARD PRUDENTLY.....Nature minded,,,,,,,,,,,

Hydrangea macrophylla " Altona"