Seagrass meadow restoration in the United Kingdom

Loch Craignish, United Kingdom
Seagrasses are the only flowering plants that can live underwater. Just like plants on the land, they have leaves, stems, roots, and photosynthetic activity. The plants’ long but strong leaves form dense meadows under the sea. Loch Craignish in Scotland has 10 small seagrass meadows and there are 80 hectares of mud where we think seagrass can be restored. With this seagrass meadow restoration project, in cooperation with Seawilding, we are trying to rebuild damaged seagrass meadows and expand the meadows already existing. This is vital, becau...Read more
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2451
seagrass shoots
5
seagrass shoots per square meter
+ 90%
of the UK's seagrass beds is lost
0,1%
of the seafloor is occupied by seagrasses
11%
of the organic carbon buried in the ocean is captured by seagrass
30 to 50
times faster carbon sequestration rate than tropical forests

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