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Environment
Poppy Johnston

How mirroring nature might just save the humble oyster

Only a tiny fraction of Australia's surviving oyster reefs are not considered functionally extinct. (Dean Lewins/AAP PHOTOS)

Only a fraction of Australia's once-abundant oyster reefs remain.

Their demise can largely be traced to industrial activity brought by European settlers to harvest the shellfish for food and dredge reefs to make early roads and buildings.

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