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Global Ocean Census
June 15 , 2023
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- A new initiative called the Ocean Census aims to expand marine biodiversity knowledge by finding 100,000 new marine species within a decade.
- A team of scientists sailed on a research vessel to the waters of the Barents Sea in the Arctic.
- They aim to find new marine species around cold seeps - cracks on the seafloor from which hydrogen sulfide, methane and other gases bubble up.
- It is jointly established by The Nippon Foundation - Japan and Nekton Foundation - U.K to discover unknown marine life.
- Scientists estimate that only about 10% of marine species have been formally described, and about 2 million species have yet to be identified.
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