Will ocean wildlife soon face the same pressure that led to the extinction of many land animals when the world industrialized? A group of scientists fears the answer may be yes, writing in a paper just published in the journal Science… “Shrimp farms are eating up mangroves with an appetite akin to that of terrestrial farming, which consumed native prairies and forest,” said co-author Steve Palumbi, of Stanford University… Rutgers University ecologist and co-author Malin Pinsky added that climate change was also a concern going forward.
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