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Keeping you up to date with Project Seagrass news and views with a mixture of field notes and commentary on seagrass and marine conservation topics.

Noltii leaf - Charles Bagshaw

Accelerate Seagrass: Exploring the process of site selection

February 17, 2026

Accelerate Seagrass is a collaborative program being delivered by Climate Impact Partners, Deloitte, Project Seagrass, and the National Oceanography Centre which aims to support groundbreaking research into seagrass carbon sequestration and unlock long-term finance to save and reinstate vital seagrass meadows.   Part of this programme of work involves collaborating with community groups across Scotland to develop knowledge

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Two divers are taking seagrass cores from a seagrass meadow in Orkney as part of research into the biodiversity within these meadows.

Open Letter to Crown Estate Scotland. Scottish Seagrass Collaborative Response to: Approach to Marine Enhancement Proposals (issued November 2025)

February 17, 2026

The Scottish Seagrass Collaborative, responds to Crown Estate Scotland’s Approach to Marine Enhancement Proposals: We write as marine scientists, restoration practitioners, and organisations working across Scotland’s coasts and seas, in response to Crown Estate Scotland’s Approach to Marine Enhancement Proposals. We welcome Crown Estate Scotland’s commitment to responsible stewardship of

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REFLECTION ON COASTAL FUTURES 2026

From conversation to commitment: reflections on Coastal Futures

February 12, 2026

Two weeks ago, I joined colleagues and collaborators at the Coastal Futures Conference at the Royal Geographical Society in London. The theme this year was ‘From Ambition to Action’, a sentiment that seems to be playing on repeat across the conferencing world with, with yet and seemingly as always, not

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Green shore crab in seagrass

Shore crab – Creatures that call seagrass home

February 11, 2026

In this blog series, our Conservation Trainee Abi David explores some of the amazing creatures that call seagrass meadows their home. The shore crab, also known as the green crab, are contentious within the seagrass world. They have important ecological roles within their habitats, but their tendency towards destruction and

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Map of the Solent. Credit Angela Harding

Songs from the Solent: New album by Richard Walters celebrates local community, culture, and the fight to restore coastal nature

January 19, 2026

Grammy-nominated singer and Solent Seascape Project collaborate with Jeremy Irons and Angela Harding to celebrate and protect the region’s coastal habitats.  The Solent Seascape Project, of which Project Seagrass is a partner, has launched Songs from the Solent, a new EP by Grammy-nominated singer and songwriter Richard Walters that uses music to spotlight the Solent’s threatened coastal habitats

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Illustration of a seagrass meadow with a seahorse and a canada goose.

The forgotten meadows of Northern Ireland

January 13, 2026

Grace Cutler, one of our 2025-26 Project Seagrass interns, reflects on Rebekah Bajkó’s research, Coastal Roots: The History of Seagrass in Northern Ireland. Northern Irish Seagrass In November 2025, I attended the UK Seagrass Symposium, an exciting conference hosted every two years to highlight the current state of seagrass research

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Drone controller being used next to kelp bed

Accelerate Seagrass Drone Survey

January 7, 2026

Accelerate Seagrass is a collaborative program being delivered by Climate Impact Partners, Deloitte, Project Seagrass, and the National Oceanography Centre which aims to support groundbreaking research into seagrass carbon sequestration and unlock long-term finance to save and reinstate vital seagrass meadows.   Part of this programme of work includes mapping to record the presence and extent of

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biodiversity

Puttalam Lagoon – Paradise Lost?

At the end of August I spent 10 days conducting fieldwork in Pattalam Lagoon, which is situated in the north west of Sri Lanka. The purpose of my visit to Puttalam Lagoon was to set up socio-economic and fish landings surveys with a research collaborator, who will now complete the

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September 30, 2015