Earth Index is published in the financial sections of newspapers around the world to establish nature on the stock exchange,with price for bees, fish and moreCoral reefs are worth £6tn a year in services they provide for people - nearly four times as much as the UK economy - an assessment of the value of natural assets has found. The ‘Earth Index’ drawn up for BBC Earth also found bees contributed £106bn to the world economy in pollinating crops, or that vultures were worth £1.6bn for clearing up animal carcasses and preventing human health hazards. Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com