Lukas VFN 🇪🇺<p>Europe’s exhausted <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/OysterReefs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OysterReefs</span></a> once covered area size of Northern Ireland <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/oct/03/europe-oyster-reefs-study" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">theguardian.com/environment/20</span><span class="invisible">24/oct/03/europe-oyster-reefs-study</span></a></p><p>"There are a handful of remnant <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/reefs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>reefs</span></a> in a few parts of Europe, including the coast of <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/Brittany" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Brittany</span></a> and the west coasts of <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/Ireland" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Ireland</span></a> and <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/Scotland" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Scotland</span></a>. But these are at most a few square metres in extent, as opposed to square kilometres in the past. The ecological functions these reefs used to provide no longer exist... They created rich ecosystems, providing a habitat for almost 200 species"</p>