Seagrass species spotlight: Spider Crab
Hello Seagrass fans! If you’re feeling crabby after not having your species spotlight update last month, do not worry, we have a treat in store for you! This month we want to introduce you to a creepy looking, but intriguing creature. You are going to meet the largest of the Crab family, they have incredibly…
Read MoreSeagrass Superheroes Series 2022
What a Spring we have seen here on the ReMEDIES Project Education program! As we head inexorably towards June and the start of Summer and a busy diving season, we can look back at the great successes of the Seagrass Superheroes program and our intensive educational outreach season delivering the series four times over thanks…
Read MoreWorld Oceans Day!
Positivity in Nature – 5 things we should all know about seagrass Following the weekends’ Jubilee celebrations, we have never been more united and positive for nature as a nation than we are following the messages of hope for nature from the pageantry of the celebrations. From messages of hope from Sir David Attenborough,…
Read MoreLIFE is 30
Happy Birthday LIFE is thirty! On the 21st May the LIFE programme turned 30 years old and as a member of the LIFE family we wanted to take this opportunity to take a look down memory lane and shine a light on the what the LIFE programme has achieved over the past 30 years. The…
Read MoreSeagrass species spotlight: green sea turtle
Green Turtles are not named based on their external shell colour which is usually a dappled brown shade. They are called green turtles because their fat under their skin is green from the large quantities of plant matter that they consume.
Read MoreOne week in the Solent
Spring finally felt like it had sprung last week as myself and a number of the ReMEDIES partnership headed down to Hampshire to plant the first of four hectares of seagrass in the Solent Restoration site.
Read MoreSpring seagrass planting is underway
Our wonderful volunteers are back in action packing seagrass seed bags for our springtime planting effort.
Read MoreSeagrass species spotlight: Seahorse
Seahorses are a mainstay of the seagrass meadow community. But their declining numbers are one of the reasons habitat restoration projects like ReMEDIES are so important. As you probably guessed, seahorses are not actually horses, they are bony fish. Despite not having the traditional shape of fish, they breathe through gills and have a swim…
Read MoreSeagrass species spotlight: Pipefish
Broadnose pipefish are a close relative of seahorses and they love to live in seagrass meadows. They use the long leaves to camouflage their elongated bodies.
Read MoreFuture Meadows: interactive seagrass artwork
Since July 2021 Future Meadows has been developing an immersive artwork that celebrates seagrass, using sculpture, light, and augmented reality.
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