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Climate change mitigation is greatly aided by grazing animals

Climate change mitigation is greatly aided by grazing animals as it affects the amount and stability of a sizable soil carbon store, “grazing by mammalian herbivores can be a climate mitigation technique,” the paper explains. In graze-free regions, soil carbon levels varied by 30–40%. While it was more stable where the huge beasts continued to graze. Large mammalian herbivore conservation in grazing habitats is still important because soil stores more carbon than all plants and the air combined.