Our Vision: A world in which seagrass meadows are thriving, abundant and well managed for people and planet.
Our Mission: To lead societal change to enable the recognition, recovery and resilience of seagrass ecosystems globally; that provide biodiversity, equitable and sustainable livelihoods, and planetary life support.
Project Seagrass is a global facing environmental charity devoted to the conservation of seagrass ecosystems through:
We are creating a community around seagrass by generating awareness and understanding of these critical habitats. We collaborate with governments, organisations, businesses and individuals to save, protect, and restore seagrass.
We lead, champion, and communicate cutting-edge scientific research which underpins everything we do. We provide and advocate for open-access data to enable effective conservation action and address the global challenges facing seagrass.
We conserve, restore, and advocate for seagrass meadows all over the world. We develop and deploy methods and tools to make saving the world’s seagrass a reality.
Project Seagrass was created with the intention of reversing the loss of seagrass by turning research into effective conservation action and communication through partnerships with local communities and other stakeholders.
If our journey as an organisation has taught us anything, it is that achieving our mission begins with how we build our team and how we work together. As a dedicated interdisciplinary team we are passionate about securing a future for seagrass. Experience has taught us, that only by bringing together a diverse range of identities, experiences and perspectives can we respond to global challenges.
Saving the world’s seagrass requires generating new knowledge and sharing it among scientists and decision-makers to support learning and enable evidence-based decision-making. We lead, champion and communicate cutting-edge scientific research which underpins everything we do.
Only by working together can we save the world’s seagrass. We work with governments, NGOs, businesses, communities and change makers to conduct participatory science and deliver collaborative action.
The knowledge and passion to conserve seagrass exist globally, but the resources needed to put this knowledge and passion to action are not equitably distributed. Only by enhancing equity, and giving others space and opportunity to make change, can we save the world’s seagrass. We provide tailored support that is both adaptive and transformative to enable others to save the world’s seagrass, whether that’s with capacity, engagement, learning or resources.
Remaining optimistic in the face of the biodiversity and climate crises is not only essential to saving the world’s seagrass, but for our team’s own mental well-being. We carry a positive and optimistic approach into all of our work. That optimism allows us to learn from failure and setbacks to grow as an organisation and improve seagrass conservation.
Everything we do is driven by our desire to make the world a better place for generations to come. Saving seagrass is key to achieving this goal. To save the world’s seagrass, we need to have a collective passion and drive to understand seagrass and work to conserve it. Our passion is a testimony of our engagement and dedication to saving the world’s seagrass.
“No one knows what seagrasses are.”
Inspired by their PhD work and experiences in Indonesia, in 2010 Richard Unsworth and Leanne Cullen-Unsworth published a key paper: Recognising the necessity for Indo‐Pacific seagrass conservation.
Multiple ideas to create a vehicle for communicating the value of seagrass collided, resulting in the creation of Project Seagrass as a formal association in 2013. This included the creation of Project Seagrass social media accounts and a website to help deliver seagrass science to the public.
Project Seagrass obtained charity status in 2015.
Project Seagrass was created with the approach of turning cutting-edge research into effective conservation action and education schemes, by collaborating with local communities and other stakeholders. As a dedicated team of seagrass scientists, we work to protect seagrass, and through seagrass, we support marine conservation more broadly community on the presence and importance of global seagrass ecosystems, the services they provide and current seagrass management issues.
