For larger or Self-recovered areas, since with appropriate hydrologic and soil conditions, solutions such as promoting waterborne propagules to reach littoral areas can be highly effective for mangrove restoration (Kamali and Hashim, 2011 and Lewis, 2005). If resources for active restoration are scarce, passive recovery can be a successful low cost alternative for mangrove restoration that preserves tree diversity and crab assemblages, although the return of ecosystem features and invertebrate functional groups may be slower. A mapping and protecting of areas able to self recover would be a shortcut to restore degraded mangrove forests, mainly in areas with low incidence of major stressor factors. Monitoring needs to be maintained in such areas, to study and eventually manipulate successional patterns.