OUR MISSION
OUR MISSION
Our mission is 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.
Our mission is 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:
COMMUNITY
RESEARCH
ACTION
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.
VISION:
A world in which seagrass meadows are thriving, abundant and well managed for people and planet.
VALUES:
Project Seagrass was created with the intention with 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. We believe; indeed, experience has taught us, that only by bringing together a diverse range of identities, experiences and perspectives can we respond to global challenges.
A UNITED APPROACH
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.
A UNITED APPROACH
Engaging the wider coProject 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 seagrass ecosystems, the services they provide and current seagrass management issues
OUR STORY
The mission, vision and values that Project Seagrass prides itself on evolved independently in the minds of its 3 founders. While pursuing masters degrees at Swansea University, Benjamin Jones and Richard Lilley each developed a passion for seagrass meadows with their supervisor Richard Unsworth. Both Ben and RJ quickly realised that these ecosystems were under threat and wanted to do something about it.
In May 2013, Ben created Project Seagrass as a platform to help deliver seagrass science to the public, using social media to help disseminate information. At the same time, RJ, and their supervisor at the time, Dr. Richard Unsworth were looking to strengthen seagrass science in Wales and started conceptualising the Welsh Seagrass Network.
After realising that they were all on a similar page, in July 2013 Ben, RJ and Richard drafted a formal constitution to make Project Seagrass an official association, an association committed to conserving seagrass meadows across the globe. Later, in 2015, now CEO Dr. Leanne Cullen-Unsworth joined the trio and co-founded Project Seagrass as a registered charity.