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Deep-sea trawling likened to turning ocean paradise into moonscape
Original: TL;DR: A paradise garden turned into a moon surface in seconds... # oceans # biodiversity # DeepSeaTrawlers # DeepSeaMin
Conservation voices are describing how deep-sea bottom trawling can strip a rich, biodiverse seabed habitat bare within seconds, leaving it barren like the surface of the moon. The warning links bottom trawling and emerging deep-sea mining to biodiversity loss and species extinction, and calls for greater protection of fragile deep-ocean ecosystems that take centuries or millennia to recover.
Why now: Ongoing debate over deep-sea mining and trawling bans keeps ocean biodiversity threats in public discussion.
deep-sea trawlersdeep-sea mining industryocean biodiversity
Evidence
- TL;DR: A paradise garden turned into a moon surface in seconds... # oceans # biodiversity # DeepSeaTrawlers # DeepSeaMining # extinction · appassionato · 6
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