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R-evolution has joined forces with Beneath The Waves to explore and ultimately scale the potential of the world’s biggest nature-based carbon sink: seagrass meadows. The project leverages satellite data, marine vessel surveys, scuba divers, sensor-tagged tiger sharks and airborne bathymetric LiDAR technology from Hexagon to detect, map and capture critical details about this vital habitat off the coast of Bahamas.
Seagrass is an important part of the coastal biodiversity-ecosystem, providing a habitat for small fish and a food source for migratory birds. As a blue carbon ecosystem, seagrass meadows are also crucial to solving environmental challenges, yet they remain among the least recognised and least protected ecological habitats.
Blue carbon ecosystems refer to coastal and marine vegetated habitats, such as seagrass meadows, salt marshes, and mangrove forests, that naturally sequester and store carbon.
Due to their capacity to store organic carbons in sediments, seagrass meadows are 5-8 times more efficient in carbon capture than forests. And, since most carbon is stored in soil and sediments, it can remain there for millennia if left undisturbed.