In Pictures: Amami-Oshima (Islands): Island Walk

The mangrove trees are tidy bushes that stabilize the river mud for other plants. Diverse colonies of crab live in the mud. Small shrimp and thousands of fish live in the water.

The Amami Islands are a group of tropical islands in Kagoshima Prefecture, Japan about 300 km north of Okinawa and about 380 km south of Kyushu. (Read More: Island Walk)