eng Oriental Scientific Publishing Company Biosciences Biotechnology Research Asia 0973-1245 2016-05-06 7 1 469 472 9761 article Surya Kanta Samal 1 Ashok Kumar Sethi 2 K. Gopinath Achary 1 Regional Medical Research Centre (ICMR), Chandrasekharpur, Nalco Square, Bhubaneswar - 751 023 (India). Department of Microbiology, College for Post Graduate Studies, Orissa University of Agriculture and Technology, Bhubaneswar - 751 003 (India). Mangroves are the characteristics littoral plants, grouped under unique ecosystems, inhabiting mostly the sheltered coastlines, within the intertidal zone of tropical and subtropical regions. In this paper, the authors has described the values of mangroves, conservation and degradation of mangroves, factors of mangrove degradations, world mangroves and their distributions and mangrove management strategy. https://www.biotech-asia.org/vol7no1/management-of-coastal-mangrove-forest-development-a-review/ Mangrove; management; ecosystem and forest.