by Kate Longley-Wood | Dec 2, 2019 | Uncategorized
Coastal wetlands provide many benefits, from fisheries habitat to improved water quality and shoreline protection, but they are also excellent at capturing and storing carbon from the atmosphere – a service we refer to as Blue Carbon. Blue carbon habitats include salt...
by Kate Longley-Wood | Nov 25, 2019 | Uncategorized
After three years of research, a team of leading marine experts, led by The Nature Conservancy and Deakin University, release today a watershed report describing and mapping the economic value provided, free-of-charge, by the coastal wetlands of south-eastern...
by Kate Longley-Wood | Oct 30, 2019 | Uncategorized
Capitalising on the ongoing success of The Nature Conservancy’s shellfish reef restoration projects all around the world, a new manual has been published to help others do likewise. Quantifying the social and ecological benefits of shellfish reefs has been a...
by Kate Longley-Wood | Jun 26, 2019 | Uncategorized
In May 2019, thirty-five natural resource professionals representing ten countries and thirty agencies gathered in Rodney Bay, St. Lucia to attend an ecosystem services workshop organized by The Nature Conservancy’s Mapping Ocean Wealth team. The workshop was...
by Kate Longley-Wood | Jun 25, 2019 | Uncategorized
With a global spread, mangrove tourism is much bigger than most people would imagine, worth billions of dollars with tens of millions of visitors In a new study researchers used User Generated Content (ie. TripAdvisor) to tell this story, which allowed them to not...
by Kate Longley-Wood | Mar 18, 2019 | Uncategorized
If you’ve visited oceanwealth.org recently, you may notice a few subtle, but meaningful changes. During the first phase of Mapping Ocean Wealth the primary focus was on the data — identifying existing sources, consulting experts, deriving new models, and...
