 Mangrove trees grow in salt water, provide the base of an entire ecology for aquatic life, and provide lumber for fuel and construction and food for indigenous livestock as camels, goats and sheep.Coupled with Sato's earlier developments in food chain generation for aquaculture, the mangrove forests provide both a land and sea-based economy that once local needs for food and housing are met can be capitalized into a specialty seafood export market.Sato envisions that saltwater deserts when sufficiently populated with mangrove forests and other plants that can flourish in salt water could counteract global impact of deforestation in other areas of the world and bring desert areas into agricultural production.