Posted on: 4 Mar 2015 / Submitted by: missjiajialin
A study in Conservation Letters was just published in which the authors work out how much carbon there is in the world’s mangrove forests, give or take a bit.
And here’s why these findings are tremendously important:
They quantify what some of us in marine conservation have been saying for a decade or more: That mangrove forests are among the most carbon-rich habitats on the planet. That, although they occupy just a fraction of the world’s surface, they pack a punch.
Anyone concerned about preserving nature’s value — carbon sequestration and all the other benefits mangroves provide us — needs to think hard about this.
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