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Climate advocate and scientist Shaama Sandooyea holds a placard reading Youth Strike For Climate during an underwater protest in the Saya de Malha bank in the Indian Ocean in March 2021.The Saya de Malha Bank is located between Mauritius and Seychelles in the Indian Ocean.
Meet the Mauritian Climate Activist Behind the World’s First Underwater Protest
Activist Shaama Sandooyea is fighting to protect the world’s largest seagrass meadow.
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Publishing date: May 01, 2021 • 3 hours ago • 4 minute read • Mauritian scientist and climate change activist Shaama Sandooyea, 24, holds a placard reading Youth Strike For Climate, during an underwater protest at the Saya de Malha Bank to highlight the need to protect the world s largest seagrass meadow within the Mascarene plateau, Mauritius March 6, 2021. Photo by REUTERS/Christophe Van Der Perre
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I’m fine with our students learning more about the “climate” as long as it includes a balanced approach and includes alternate views that show that the green movement isn’t all it’s cracked up to be and how politics plays a role. They could start by watching Bright Green Lies, Global Warning and Planet o
The Greenpeace ship Arctic Sunrise has been at the Saya de Malha Bank in the Indian Ocean to map and research the wildlife of the region with an international team of scientists. The Saya be Malha Bank is the world’s largest seagrass meadow.
With the help of binoculars and hydrophones, they’ve been looking for whales, sharks, seabirds and turtles – with a very slim prospect of also seeing a dugong.
Seagrass meadows
Seagrass meadows cover less than 0.2% of the world s seabed, but take up approximately 10% of the carbon buried in ocean sediment each year. On one hectare, seagrasses can store up to twice as much carbon as forests on land.
Publishing date: Apr 08, 2021 • 4 hours ago • 4 minute read • Seagrass are seen in the Indian Ocean above the world s largest seagrass meadow and one of the biggest carbon sinks in the high seas, at the Saya de Malha Bank within the Mascarene plateau, Mauritius, March 20, 2021. Photo by Tommy Trenchard/Greenpeace /Handout via REUTERS
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SAYA DE MALHA BANK Hundreds of miles from the nearest shore, ribbon-like fronds flutter in the ocean currents sweeping across an underwater mountain plateau the size of Switzerland.
A remote-powered camera glides through the sunlit, turquoise waters of this corner of the western Indian Ocean, capturing rare footage of what scientists believe is the world’s largest seagrass meadow.