{"id":24255,"date":"2021-10-29T09:47:51","date_gmt":"2021-10-29T09:47:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/strettonclimatecare.org.uk\/?p=24255"},"modified":"2021-10-29T09:49:06","modified_gmt":"2021-10-29T09:49:06","slug":"meadows-could-be-our-secret-weapon-in-the-fight-against-climate-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/strettonclimatecare.org.uk\/2021\/10\/meadows-could-be-our-secret-weapon-in-the-fight-against-climate-change\/","title":{"rendered":"Meadows could be our secret weapon in the fight against climate change"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/mg25133581-000-meadows-could-be-our-secret-weapon-in-the-fight-against-climate-change\/#ixzz7AfNu09u3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Permanent grasslands<\/a> hold about a <a href=\"https:\/\/eprints.whiterose.ac.uk\/131752\/1\/Samuel'sacceptedmanuscript.pdf\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">third of Earth\u2019s terrestrial carbon<\/a>, meaning they can\u2019t be overlooked when we talk about slowing climate change, writes Gill Perkins. More grasslands, and especially more biodiverse ones, means <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1111\/gcb.14777\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">more natural carbon storage<\/a>. Yet instead of expanding these habitats, we risk losing them entirely.<\/p>\n<p>Gill recently presented at the report from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fscbiodiversity.uk\/blog\/bumblebees-mynd\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bilberry Bumblebee Project<\/a>, one of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationaltrust.org.uk\/carding-mill-valley-and-the-long-mynd\/features\/stepping-stones-project\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Stepping Stones<\/a> projects.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Permanent grasslands hold about a third of Earth\u2019s terrestrial carbon, meaning they can\u2019t be overlooked when we talk about slowing climate change, writes Gill Perkins. More grasslands, and especially more biodiverse ones, means more natural carbon storage. Yet instead of expanding these habitats, we risk losing them entirely. 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