Causarina Trees To Act As Tasunami Breaks

[george]

Trees to act as ‘tsunami breaks’

PHUKET: -- Trees may be planted along the Andaman Coast to give some protection to the land from future tsunamis, Natural Resources and Environment Minister Yongyuth Tiyapairat said this weekend.

The Minister, on a visit to Phuket, said that buildings that had been sheltered from the sea by trees, particularly casuarinas, appeared to have suffered much less damage during the tsunami than those that had not.

Officials from the Department of Marine and Coastal Resources are now surveying the Andaman coastline and procuring trees that could be planted as natural “tsunami breaks”.

K. Yongyuth added, however, that the decision as to which trees should be planted should take into account their appropriateness for the surroundings.

--Phuket Gazette 2005-04-11

[plachon]

Trees to act as ‘tsunami breaks’

PHUKET: -- Trees may be planted along the Andaman Coast to give some protection to the land from future tsunamis, Natural Resources and Environment Minister Yongyuth Tiyapairat said this weekend.

The Minister, on a visit to Phuket, said that buildings that had been sheltered from the sea by trees, particularly casuarinas, appeared to have suffered much less damage during the tsunami than those that had not.

Officials from the Department of Marine and Coastal Resources are now surveying the Andaman coastline and procuring trees that could be planted as natural “tsunami breaks”.

K. Yongyuth added, however, that the decision as to which trees should be planted should take into account their appropriateness for the surroundings.

--Phuket Gazette 2005-04-11

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There you go Andrew - somebody up there's been listening to you after all!

[RDN]

There you go Andrew - somebody up there's been listening to you after all! 

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Who's Andrew? I thought trees became giant battering rams during a tsunami? I hope they grow ones with deep roots .

[Andrew K Fletcher]

Thank you George and Plachon

This post is a breath of fresh air and reflects another thread to perfection.

Many people in many countires found themselves clinging to trees during the tsunami, in order to escape the oceans wrath.

However, many of the trees are now adrift or washed up on some beach, miles from their original habitat. The problem now is to replace these trees that have been uprooted or destroyed by the salinity as soon as possible, in order to give them the best possible chance of surviving the next tsunami.

Should we ignore the loss of these trees in favour of new buildings, concrete roads and huts, the devastation from the next one will undoubtedly be even more deadly.

But there is another reason that trees should be replanted along the coastlines, and that is to encourage moisture from the ocean to cross onto the land.

Today the drought, tomorrow the desert!

I have just received a very poitive email, informing me that our endevours to reforest Thailand have not fallen on deaf ears. The Pocket Full of Acorns project , together with the idea of a National Tree Planting week has now been forwarded to His Majesty the King Of Thailand

Andrew

P.S. have copied this positive and encouraging post to the other thread.

George, your tenacity in finding and posting these and many other articles is amazing and you should be given a medal for your endevours here

Andrew