
Ocean Census: Species discovery at speed and scale
Asia Perspectives by Economist Impact
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The Legacy of Ocean Census
The majority of biodiversity is often found in low and middle-income countries where there are the least taxonomists. For example, our ability to sequence all the animals which are discovered through ocean census will help underpin EDNA, environmental DNA as a critical tool for conservation. We've only discovered like 10%. So what does that other 90% herald for us? And I think all that sort of brings us back to where we started in many ways which is the challenge of exploration because of exploitation. What could happen if we then go and discover some new great jewel in the ocean? What would then happen to the life that lives there? People start to harvest it and that's where we need to
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