Abstract mangrove forests are natural resources in coastal areas that have an important role in terms of social, economic and ecological aspects. however, the utilization of the mangrove ecosystem makes it vulnerable to damage. this study aims to determine the level of public knowledge of the economic, ecological benefit and damage that happened to mangrove areas in tarakan city. the scoring method was used to determine the total score or the fotal score of the respondent's answer, which amount to 50 people, that the community's knowlegde of the economic benefits of mangroves as firewood, mangrove areas as a place for settlement, mangroves as a place to get fish and mangrove benefits as aquaculture areas with total scores of 226, 200, 232, 230 respectively. however the level of community knowledge about the benefits of mangroves as a medicanal ingredient obtained a total score of 164, which means the level of community knowledge was in the doubtful category. while the level of community knowledge of the ecological benefits of mangrove forests as coastline guards, sea wave barriers, sea wind protectors and animal breeding site were included in the category of "know" with total score of 228, 224, 234, 240 respectively, but the level of knowldge the community regarding the benefits of mangroves that can manage household waste was in the "doubtful" category with a total score of 128. the community was aware of the damage to mangrove forest ecosystems caused by garbage, logging/mangrove, expanding aquaculture, settlements and increasing population with a total score of 234,232,210,228 and 200 levels of knowledge, respectively which are included in the "know" category.

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