Photo Credit: Beth Young, via The Nature Conservancy It’s called the 100-1000 partnership — 100 miles of new oyster reefs and 1,000 miles of re-planted marshlands in coastal Alabama, thanks to a coalition of non-profits, including Alabama Coastal Foundation, Mobile Baykeeper, The Nature Conservancy and The Ocean Foundation. Because of the damage done to marshlands, oyster reef habitats and seagrass beds through human activities — the most recent of which is of course the Gulf oil disaster — fisheries have suffered. But the coalition and its ” 100-1000 partnership ” aims to bring back the buffers that … Read the full story on TreeHugger
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New Project Restores Gulf Habitat, One Mile of Oysters At a Time
