YANGON, June 17 (Xinhua) -- Myanmar local private media have stressed the preservation of mangrove to mitigate the impact of cyclone storm, calling on people to place emphasis to regrow the plantation after disaster.

    Despite destruction of some mangrove in Myanmar's Ayeyawaddy delta region during a recent cyclone storm early last month, it had been able to prevent some villages from inflicting casualties, said the Weekly Eleven News Tuesday.

    The report cited donors, who visited a village called Thantheikin Dedaye township in the Ayeyawaddy division, as saying that although the 1,300-population village lies at a point where rivers meet, no one died in the cyclone.

    The mangrove had been able to bring down the speed of the tidal wave, enabling villagers there to escape from deaths, it said.

    Similar instances also show that no one was killed also in Meinmahlagyun village in the division's Bogalay exceptionally.

    Deadly tropical cyclone Nargis, which occurred over the Bay of Bengal, hit five divisions and states -- Ayeyawaddy, Yangon, Bago,Mon and Kayin -- on May 2-3, of which Ayeyawaddy and Yangon inflicted the heaviest casualties and massive infrastructural damage.

    The storm has killed 77,738 people and left 55,917 missing and 19,359 injured according to official-released death toll.