Leonardo DiCaprio Instagram – Trees are known for absorbing CO2 from our atmosphere, but in the oceans, whales play an equally important role in the carbon cycle.
Today’s global whale population of around 1.3 million is still recovering from commercial whaling – their historic population has been estimated at close to 5 million. Allowing whales to recover could significantly boost the amount of phytoplankton in the ocean and the atmospheric carbon it captures every year.
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