![]() ![]() Scientists describe the loss of seagrass meadows and kelp forests that ring the coastline in a single word: catastrophic. Britain now ranks in the bottom 10 percent of the world and as the worst among G-7 nations. Nearly half of the country’s wildlife and plant species have been lost since the Industrial Revolution, according to a biodiversity monitoring initiative launched last year by London’s Natural History Museum. ![]() is in no position to lose such opportunities, advocates say. Yet lately efforts to restore coastal waters have encountered obstacles unique to this monarchy-ones that have chased a kelp farmer to a more welcoming reception in southeast Asia, for example, and that threaten to derail the largest effort to replant seagrass ever undertaken in Britain. ![]() That eye-popping detail of monarchal history is being seen in a new light as Britain’s declining biodiversity gains attention and the royal family has been urged to take on greater leadership in restoring nature-starting with the properties they control. ![]()
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