“If mining goes ahead, we won’t know what we may be losing because we don’t know what there is to start with,” Rabone said. “These are incredible species. There’s these sponges that are literally made of glass,” she offered as one example, “absolutely beautiful animals.”
Thanks for the additional info. That’s really worrying. Ecosystems are related to one another in complex ways we can’t even guess, and the ocean is already under massive stress.