Oyster reef conservation could unlock $12 trillion annually in untapped ‘ecopotential’
Researchers said restored reefs could deliver water filtration, shoreline protection and oyster trade value, with 90% of suitable habitat needing full restoration.
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The world's oyster reefs could add $12 trillion to planetary health each year—if they were better managed
A new study shows that the world's oyster reefs are a precious resource that's vastly underestimated and underutilized. The authors set out to calculate the reefs' potential gross ecosystem product (GEP), the ecological counterpart of the gross economic product, and arrived at trillions of dollars in ecosystem goods and services delivered each year to different aspects of planetary health, including human well-being. But for their full potential…
According to a new calculation, oyster reefs could be worth 12 trillion dollars per year. According to the researchers, that amount applies only if ten countries fully restore their reefs. Currently, nine-tenths of the places where this is possible are empty. Pauline Kamermans, who conducts research on shellfish at Wageningen Marine Research and was not involved in the study […] More science? Read the latest articles on Scientias.nl.
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