OMAN | Friday, 5 July 2013 | Views [698] | View Larger Image
“Qurm” tree, the local name for Mangrove, has been for centuries growing along the coastal area.Creating green forest all year round, Its unique ecosystem offers a habitat for many marine organisms including species of fish and shell fish, at same time protecting the land from erosion.If it wasn’t for the efforts of the local environmental activists, with the help of the government to preserve this forest, and declare it nature reserve, such natural beauty would have been replaced by concrete buildings and roads by now
