"This mangrove area is quite large, isn't it?"
Bored, the assistant started chatting with two students in the group.
"The mangrove area used to be much bigger. Local people would take wooden boats here to fish. Later, everyone went to plant rubber trees, and the wetlands gradually degraded. The wetland park in the provincial capital also has mangroves, but they're so small you can't really call them that, and they've even set up some sort of transparent boat there, developing a boat tour of the mangroves."
Previously, the locals also wanted to develop mangrove tourism here, but it didn't go through. Too many tourists can cause various issues, the biggest being garbage pollution, which would damage the natural environment here.
Now, fishing isn't really allowed in the mangroves. Each area has specific people assigned to be responsible for it, and they are in charge of patrolling the wetland's environment, collecting garbage, and the like.
