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"In late spring last year, Betty Hodgson, president of the Nova Scotia
non-profit group Friends of the Pugwash Estuary, sat in the bow of a small boat
with Kristina Boerder, a marine biologist at Dalhousie University. As they
maneuvered the dingy through the shallow estuarine waters that flow undaunted
into Canada’s Northumberland Strait, the pair leaned over the boat’s edge,
scanning below the rippling surface for any sign of silvery-green ribboned
blades of eelgrass. What they were really looking for was hope.
Living in shallow water along the intertidal coastlines and estuaries of more
than 190 countries, eelgrass, or
Zostera marina, is part of the seagrass
family of plants and the most common seagrass species in Canada.
Despite covering just 0.2 percent of the sea floor, seagrasses account for an
estimated 10 percent of all the carbon stored by the world’s oceans. They are
also able to capture carbon from the atmosphere up to 35 times faster than
tropical rainforests such as the Amazon."
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
