Meet the sea cucumber🪸 They might be unassuming and go unnoticed by most, but they do play a vital role recycling nutrients to help ‘clean’ the ocean 😉 As they are quite popular in some Asian cuisines, due to its various health benefits, it’s lead to an increase in demand for them. That’s why the Western Australian Sea Cucumber fishery, hand-harvests them in remote and pristine waters, meaning fewer interactions with the ocean floor and none with threatened or endangered species. This sustaina

There are more than 1,200 species of sea cucumbers in the world’s oceans. These marine animals play an important role in recycling nutrients, and according to recent research, may also help protect corals from ocean acidification. Turns out that sea cuke poop increases the pH of the waters where the critters defecate. Read more about sea cukes at Nat Geo: http://bit.ly/2FD2heQ | Center for Biological Diversity