Seychelles is one of the first countries to map its seagrasses nationwide, which are a huge store of carbon.
When the tide is out, Errol Renaud can see seagrass meadows on the ocean floor from his coastal home on the Seychelles island of Mahe.
"This reclamation done before, during the monsoon it means a lot more sand is coming onto one side, and we are seeing much higher waves. They account for 10% of the ocean's total burial of carbon, despite covering less than 0.2% of the ocean floor, a report in the scientific journal Nature Geoscience said.
This year it became one of the first countries to accurately map all of its seagrass ecosystems nationwide. "We would like to understand how much carbon was stored in the seagrass over the last few years, in order to inform the government who want to determine how much carbon content is in those seagrass around the Seychelles," says Jerome Harlay, a lead environmental scientist on the project.
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