Restoring just nine groups of animals could help combat global warming

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Most research on carbon removal has focused on forests and seagrass, but important animals such as wolves and bison can play a major role too

as the most efficient way of storing carbon.

He and his colleagues reviewed data from previous publications about the environmental effects – including dispersing seeds, trampling, carbon cycling, feeding behaviour, hunting behaviour and methane production – of dozens of kinds of wild animals. They determined that we could theoretically meet the planet’s carbon reduction goals by protecting six groups of animals and expanding another three. The populations of reef sharks, grey wolves, wildebeest, sea otters, musk oxen and ocean fish need to be maintained at current levels. We would also need populations of at least 500,000

, 2 million American bison and 188,000 baleen whales in the Southern Ocean. Collectively, these populations could help capture approximately 6.41 gigatonnes of carbon dioxide annually, says Schmitz.Get a dose of climate optimism delivered straight to your inbox every month.

 

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You can't it's deep underwater volcanoes some 40 miles long tectonic plates flexing . This is a scam and global warming is the strawman .money please from the us treasuries please . Billions gone of your tax money .

Oh, yes please!

GreenJennyJones You’d almost think Ol’ Ma Nature knew what she was doing, all those countless millennia…

Going nuclear would be even more effective!

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Yep.

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This should be a good basis to stop the cruel culling of wolves in the US

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