Bruce Moll

They have bats.

Flying all around.

The bats eat bats.

The equivalent of two-thirds of their own weight in insects every night.

They eat all night long.

All kind of bugs.

Each year, the farmers, collectively, they make about $4 or $5 million off of these farms.

Out of $4 to $5 million, it was around $700,000 that you could ascribe to the bats.

It does give you a glimpse at the kind of scale of value, economic value, that nature has that we generally just totally ignore.

Which in today's dollars is $142.7 trillion per year of services.

That's more than all of the gross national products of the world.

Well, they came up with a list.

So the list kind of depends on the ecosystem you're talking about because different ecosystems provide different services.

For example, a salt marsh.

Salt marshes are wetlands that are on the coast.

Got it.

Yep, we're standing in about a foot of water here.

We're quickly approaching high tide.

Your boots are much more waterproof.

One of the things it does is it takes water that's coming in from inland, and it's laden with all sorts of pollutants, all sorts of bad stuff.