Continuing our ‘In search of secret wildlife’ series, Nina Seale dives into the mysteries surrounding marine ecology and conservation, exploring the dangers that mining and industrial fishing present when so little is known about the potential impact.
We know so little about our ocean, we can’t even guess the number of zeroes we need to measure marine life.
There are currently approximately 200,000 described marine species (about 11 per cent of all described species). But there could be more than 10 million.
However, we do know that the vast accumulation of life which has evolved and flourished in our ocean plays a very important role in how we experience life on land.
