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Mangroves are plants that adapt themselves to the saline conditions by producing specialized structure such as stilt roots and pneumatophores According to Lugo &Snedaker (1974), the term mangrove means either a group of halophytes exhibiting either marked similarities in morphological characters or ecological adaptations. The Oxford dictionary (2011) has defined mangroves as any tropical tree or shrub of genus Rhizophora growing in shore-mud with many tangled roots above the ground. Mangroves grow well where the conditions favor the deposition of sediments in the convex margins of river and the creek meanders and where there is progradation of the coasts and the soil is built up (Vamico 1989).