#seagrassrestoration — Public Fediverse posts

#Seahorse #habitats 'healing' thanks to #EcoMoorings

September 25, 2026

"Scars caused to rare seahorse habitats by boat anchors off the #Dorset coast are starting to heal, thanks to the installation of new moorings.

"In 2021, Studland Bay Marine Partnership began installing the first of dozens of eco-moorings in a bid to reverse damage to delicate #SeagrassMeadows.

"A new scientific study has now provided the first evidence that eco-moorings can help restore #seagrass, with some scars shrinking by more than 90% over four years.

"David Brown, chair of the partnership steering group, called the results 'incredibly exciting', adding: 'The impact has been beyond our expectations.'

" #SeagrassHabitats store carbon, support #biodiversity and help protect coastlines from erosion, but are declining globally due to pollution, development, disturbance and #ClimateChange.

"The research, conducted by Kira Dunn as part of her MSc in Marine Biology with Oceanography at the University of Southampton, analysed monitoring data collected since the first eco-moorings were installed."

Read more:
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cqrm90n3m90po

#SolarPunkSunday #RestoringNature #OceansAreLife #WaterIsLife #SeagrassRestoration #UKNews #DorsetUK

As #EastAfrica’s oceans change, coastal women build new livelihoods

By ALLAN OLINGO, July 5, 2026 at 10:36 pm

MALINDI, #Kenya (AP) — "The unfinished restaurant is still little more than concrete walls and wooden beams. As her daughter sweeps away the last piles of sand, 54-year-old Nuru Mohammed directs women hanging fishing nets to serve as decor. In a few days, the beachside restaurant on Kenya’s Indian Ocean coast will open, offering another way to earn a living.

" 'For us women, this is hope,' says Mohammed, who, for most of her life, was one of the few fisherwomen in Malindi, a town northeast of the port city of #Mombasa. 'It will help support many families that have depended on the ocean for decades.'

"Across East Africa’s coast, fisherfolk are increasingly turning to tourism, #EcosystemRestoration and other conservation-based businesses, reinventing their relationship with the sea as #ClimateChange, #overfishing and declining ocean health threaten their livelihoods.

"In Kenya, women are turning restored #MangroveForests into sources of income through #beekeeping and #ecotourism. In #Tanzania’s #Zanzibar archipelago, fishing communities are protecting #CoralReefs through locally managed closures. In #Mozambique, #SeaGrassRestoration is creating jobs while reviving marine habitats. Together, these efforts are redefining resilience, not as leaving the ocean behind, but as restoring it while building enduring livelihoods.

" 'Communities that depend on the ocean are also its best stewards,' said Andreane Martel, project director for a conservation program dubbed #ReSea. 'When local people, especially women, lead conservation, they protect #biodiversity while creating more resilient and inclusive livelihoods.' "

Read more:
https://www.seattletimes.com/business/as-east-africas-oceans-change-coastal-women-build-new-livelihoods/

Archived version:
https://archive.ph/LTBNs

#SolarPunkSunday #ClimateResilience #OceansAreLife #Stewardship

RT by @EU_MARE: 📢 Help map #SeagrassRestoration across the Mediterranean!

If you’ve worked on a restoration project - big or small - @InterregEuroMED project #ARTEMIS wants your input.

They are building a shared map to connect practitioners, learn from each other, and guide future efforts.

Add your project and become part of a more connected, visible restoration community👉https://shorturl.at/QzPRQ

More about ARTEMIS: https://artemis.interreg-euro-med.eu/
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https://nitter.net/WestMedStrat/status/2042032751688241219#m

Marine biologists fight to save endangered seagrass species in Sydney Harbour

A centuries-old nautical technique is being redesigned within a small Sydney cove in a bid to save a…
#NewsBeep #News #Environment #AU #Australia #balmoralboatshed #endangeredseagrass #harbourpollution #marinebiologist #NSWNews #Science #seagrass #seagrassmeadows #seagrassrestoration #sydneyharbour #sydneynews #sydneywaterquality #Waterpollution #waterquality
https://www.newsbeep.com/au/475994/

https://www.europesays.com/ie/334363/ Marine biologists fight to save endangered seagrass species in Sydney Harbour #BalmoralBoatShed #Éire #EndangeredSeagrass #Environment #HarbourPollution #IE #Ireland #MarineBiologist #NSWNews #Science #seagrass #SeagrassMeadows #SeagrassRestoration #SydneyHarbour #SydneyNews #SydneyWaterQuality #WaterPollution #WaterQuality

Precision Engineering Helps Power World’s First Underwater Seagrass Harvester — Environmental Protection https://www.byteseu.com/1594916/ #AccuEngineering #CarbonCaptureEcosystems #ConservationInnovation #environment #EnvironmentalEngineering #HabitatRestoration #MarineConservationTechnology #MarineGradeStainlessSteel #OceanClimateSolutions #PrecisionFasteners #ProjectSeagrass #SeagrassRestoration #SustainableTechnology #TandemVentures #UnderwaterHarvester

Loch Craignish in Scotland is being 'seawilded' with oysters and seagrass meadows: some of the world's most depleted habitats. Could it be a model for wider underwater restoration?
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20230725-seawilding-the-scottish-community-reviving-a-loch

#seagrass #scotland #seagrassrestoration

Researchers from UNCW’s Department of Biology and Marine Biology and the Center for Marine Science have been awarded an almost $400,000 National Estuarine Research Reserve Science Collaborative Grant to further their research on seagrasses that are vital to coastal ecosystems.

#seagrass #northcarolina #seagrassrestoration #climatechange

https://uncw.edu/news/2023/01/uncw-researchers-awarded-national-estuarine-research-grant-for-coastal-ecosystem-study.html

One million seagrass seeds deployed in Cockburn Sound - Fishing World
https://www.fishingworld.com.au/news/one-million-seagrass-seeds-deployed-in-cockburn-sound
#seagrass #cockburnsound #seagrassrestoration

The community restoring Kenya’s seagrass meadows https://chinadialogueocean.net/en/conservation/the-community-restoring-kenyas-seagrass-meadows/#seagrass #kenya #seagrassrestoration

Seeds for Snapper: supporting seagrass restoration. Tape weed (or Poisidonia) seagrass fruits are released sometime between mid-December to January by local seagrass populations that form slicks on the surface of the water and drift ashore on incoming tides.

https://www.victorharbortimes.com.au/story/7989295/seeds-for-snapper-supporting-seagrass-restoration/?cs=356

#seagrass #seagrassrestoration