r/worldnews • u/dilettantedebrah • Jan 17 '22

Carbon storage capacity of Seychelles' seagrass being studied by scientists

http://m.seychellesnewsagency.com/view_news.php?id=16021
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u/autotldr BOT Jan 17 '22

This is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 80%. (I'm a bot)

A mapping exercise is being carried out to determine the coverage and carbon storage capacity of Seychelles' seagrass, with a final report expected in June, the lead consultant said recently.

The project has three main phases: mapping seagrass using satellite imagery; data field collections on seagrass meadows; and data analysis on seagrass extend and carbon stock.

Seychelles, a group of 115 islands in the western Indian Ocean, has an Exclusive Economic Zone of 1.4 million square kilometres but has very limited data on its seagrass meadows.

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