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 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. 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
“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.