Seagrasses are flowering plants that live in the shallow, sheltered areas of our coast. These sensitive plants are different from seaweed and grow bright green leaves forming dense underwater meadows. These meadows are full of life, supporting thousands of marine species, producing oxygen, storing carbon, stabilising our coastlines and keeping our ocean clean and clear. Yet, they are globally threatened and are facing significant loss around the world.
Seagrasses are flowering plants that live in the shallow, sheltered areas of our coast. These sensitive plants are different from seaweed and grow bright green leaves forming dense underwater meadows. These meadows are full of life, supporting thousands of marine species, producing oxygen, storing carbon, stabilising our coastlines, and keeping our ocean clean and clear. Yet, they are globally threatened and are facing significant loss around the world.
Since the late 19th century, it is estimated that one third of our worlds seagrass meadows have disappeared. It’s vital we save what we have left and restore what we have lost.
Since the late 19th century, it is estimated that one third of our world’s seagrass meadows have disappeared. It’s vital we save what we have left and restore what we have lost.
Saving seagrass means saving our seas. We need to protect and restore seagrass whilst supporting the continuation of sustainable
human activities that occur amongst or depend directly upon seagrass ecosystems. We need to do this now, as a connected global community, using and sharing knowledge and expertise, recognising, and espousing the vast body of largely untapped local ecological knowledge and empowering action from the local to international scale.
Saving seagrass means saving our seas. We need to protect and restore seagrass whilst supporting the continuation of sustainable
human activities that occur amongst or depend directly upon seagrass ecosystems. We need
to do this now, as a connected global community, using and sharing knowledge and
expertise, recognising, and espousing the vast body of largely untapped local ecological
knowledge and empowering action from the local to international scale.
Project Seagrass is a global facing marine conservation organisation securing a future for seagrass. Through community, research and action we will reach a world in which seagrass meadows are thriving, abundant and well managed for people and planet.
Project Seagrass is a global facing marine conservation organisation securing a future for seagrass. Through community, research, and action we will reach a world in which seagrass meadows are thriving, abundant, and well managed for people and planet.
Since 2013, Project Seagrass has been committed conserving seagrass ecosystems to ensure that the benefits they provide people and planet are sustained now and for the future.
By bridging community, research and action, we can save the world’s seagrass.
Since 2013, Project Seagrass has been committed to conserving seagrass ecosystems to ensure that the benefits they provide people and planet are sustained now and for the future.
By bridging community, research and action, we can save the world’s seagrass.
The Ocean is in crisis. Coral reefs are bleaching, seagrass meadows are vanishing, mangroves are being cleared, and biodiversity is plummeting. Scientists estimate we’ve already lost up to 50% of global saltmarshes, 35% of mangroves, and 20% of seagrasses. Yet alongside this sobering decline, momentum for marine restoration has never
Earlier this year, the Scottish Government circulated a draft version of Scotland’s first Blue Carbon Action Plan with key stakeholders to gather comments and feedback. Project Seagrass was one of the organisations contacted as part of this process. The Blue Carbon Action Plan sets out the Scottish Government’s position and
Posidonia seagrass meadows, veritable underwater forests, play a major ecological role. Under constant pressure from human activity, scientists are looking for ways to ensure their survival, in particular by carrying out restoration campaigns. A study conducted by the University of Liège at the marine and oceanographical research station STARESO (Calvi,
This summer, the Sjogras Partnership returned to Orkney to undertake a range of surveys to further develop our understanding of the health and extent of Orkney’s important seagrass meadows. Between the 19th July and 1st August, Professor Joanne Porter from Heriot Watt University and Dr Elizabeth Lacey from Project Seagrass
