World Environment Day: Public called on to log seagrass lawns and meadows Seagrasses help to slow climate change and biodiversity loss, says Coastwatch
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A female spiny seahorse shelters in a meadow of common eelgrass (Zostera marina). Photographed in summer (August) in Studland Bay, Dorset, England
Coastwatch is launching a national campaign to assess the state of Ireland’s sea-grass populations which play a critical role and in countering climate change by capturing carbon and provide a rich habitat for marine species.
Coinciding with World Environment Day (WED) on Saturday, the environmental group is seeking the help of the public – as citizen scientists – in conducting research at key coastal locations with a view to informing their restoration, especially in helping to arrest biodiversity loss.
Legislators must act urgently to stem biodiversity loss, committee told Investing in nature ‘doesn’t cost the earth, but it gives us and the Earth a chance’
Tue, May 4, 2021, 17:19
Most fields “are practically devoid of life while even the ancient system of hedgerows is vanishing due to neglect and outright destruction”.
Nearly two years since the Dáil declared a climate and a biodiversity emergency, the collapse of Irish biodiversity “is happening – and it’s countrywide”, the OireachtasClimate Committee has been told.
In a damning assessment, Pádraic Fogarty of the Irish Wildlife Trust said legislators needed to act with urgency by pursuing readily available solutions – the committee is examining how a 51 per cent cut in carbon emissions can be achieved by 2030, including the possible contribution from enhanced biodiversity.