Coastal ecosystems are nature’s quiet champions – and some of the most under-measured. Mangrove forests, salt marshes and seagrass meadows absorb storm surges, nurture fisheries and lock away more carbon for every hectare than most terrestrial forests.
Yet these blue-carbon buffers are eroding at the very moment the climate crisis makes them more valuable than ever. Turning that tide demands precision. Every decision, such as where to intervene, which species to plant, how to phase replanting, must be informed by accurate, timely and location-specific data – because every misstep compounds over decades.
Until recently, collecting that intelligence meant clipboards, tide tables and a few scattered transects. The result was inconsistent outcomes.
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