Green Group discussion

http://www.defendersblog.org/2014/09/...

It's the same old story "For want of a shoe the horse was lost" which nobody pays attention to.

Oysters are another important but overlooked keystone species that isn't doing well either. 80 to 85 percent of their natural habitat is completely gone. 95 percent of those oysters we are eating are grown by people.

If you were to simply drop a baby oyster in the water it isn't going to survive which is freaky because they grow in close to shore. Because they are successfully grown in commercial quantities it is felt that they do not need to be listed as endangered.

What is missing is the underwater infrastructure that wild oyster reefs provide for the entire marine eco system they live in, this absence leads to weakened situations for the other species depending on them.