‘One whale is worth more than a thousand trees’ — Watch how rebuilding whale populations can contribute to solving the climate crisis.
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Did you know whale poop is crucial to the production of oxygen we breathe?

Carissa Cabrera is a marine conservationist who uses social media to educate about climate change and ocean conservation. She talks about how whales are a type of blue carbon that stays in the ocean and out of the atmosphere, allowing for more carbon sequestration. When whales poop, it adds nutrients to the water, which fertilizes the blooming phytoplankton. This is the same phytoplankton that produces over half of the oxygen we breathe. Phytoplankton takes carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere through photosynthesis.

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