With the little knowledge of mangroves available to us, there is no way to fully comprehend the richness of such a system; thus, there is no way to fully explore its possibilities or understand what we are losing. By destroying
this ecosystem, some of the countries discussed in this paper are losing great opportunities that can only be
understood by acquiring more information concerning the characteristics and value of mangroves. As stated
previously, it is crucial to study the potential of mangroves in order to help a better understand about the need for their preservation and sustainable use (Barbier et al., 2008), which is also important to increase collaborative
biological/ecological and economic research thus providing better estimations on the value of ECE (estuarine
and coastal ecosystems) (Barbier et al., 2011).