“If mining goes ahead, we won’t know what we may be losing because we don’t know what there is to start with,” Rabone said. “These are incredible species. There’s these sponges that are literally made of glass,” she offered as one example, “absolutely beautiful animals.”
I read an article about this awhile ago, and according to their own study, the life in the test patch hadn’t come back after 30+ years. If they go through with this it will do unspeakable damage to a very poorly understood ecosystem with potentially monumental ramifications.
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Thanks for the additional info. That's really worrying. Ecosystems are related to one another in complex ways we can't even guess, and the ocean is already under massive stress.
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