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Seagrass awareness boards installed in the Isles of Scilly
Interpretation boards help boat users navigate sensitive seabed habitats As part of a major effort to protect and raise awareness of the Isles of Scilly’s fragile seagrass habitats, interpretation boards have been installed at key locations around the archipelago. These boards aim to raise awareness to both residents and visitors about the critical role…
A First for the Solent: Osborne Bay Voluntary No Anchor Zone Installed
Osborne Bay hosts an expansive seagrass bed that is showing signs of damage from anchoring and mooring pressures. Surveys indicate a high level of this activity in the bay. Reducing and removing these pressures will allow the seagrass bed to naturally recover and flourish. Natural England led the introduction of a Voluntary No Anchor Zone…
New boat mooring system paves way for significant seagrass rewilding
A pioneering project by the Marine Conservation Society and the Ocean Conservation Trust has recorded significant seagrass regrowth in Plymouth Sound, whilst continuing to allow safe boat mooring. Four years following the installation of a new ‘Advanced Mooring System’, the Marine Conservation Society and partners at the Ocean Conservation Trust report a 212% increase in…
Seagrass awareness boards unveiled at marinas across Plymouth
Interpretation boards help boat users navigate sensitive seabed habitats The new seagrass information boards in Plymouth are the first to be installed at marinas and harbours in five key seagrass sites in the South of England. The first of these boards, funded by the LIFE Recreation ReMEDIES Project, were installed at six marinas across Plymouth,…
4,000 Seagrass plants deployed in Plymouth Sound
Our work on England’s largest seagrass restoration effort continues in Plymouth Sound National Marine Park this summer. ReMEDIES restoration lead the Ocean Conservation Trust (OCT), have planted 100 seagrass pillows into the restoration site at Jennycliff Bay, each containing around 40 healthy seagrass plants, with rhizomes. With this latest effort covering 2,500 square metres of…
Interim report released on seagrass re-growth
By Jean-Luc Solandt, Principal Specialist, Marine Protected Areas, Marine Conservation Society The Marine Conservation Society (MCS) has released an interim project report on the re-growth of seagrass around Advanced Mooring Systems (AMS) placed into Cawsand Bay in May 2019. The report details the change in ecological conditions (density) of shoots around the new moorings. .…
Life Recreation ReMEDIES receives boost from Valeport
The largest seagrass restoration, education and innovation project in England, LIFE Recreation ReMEDIES, will receive support from environmental sensor manufacturer, Valeport, for the project’s final two years. Joining forces with the conservation project is a natural fit for the designer and manufacturer of high quality hydrographic and oceanographic instruments, Guy Frankland, Valeport’s head of marketing…
South West England innovators collaborate to develop enhanced solutions for seagrass monitoring
A new, non-invasive method to measure and monitor seagrass biomass on the seabed around England’s South West coast is being developed as part of an ongoing, collaborative project. The innovative new technique is currently being trialled by local companies HydroSurv and Valeport, working with the University of Plymouth and Natural England, and supported by a…
England’s largest ever seagrass planting hits new milestone
£2.5m project led by Natural England has now planted seagrass across a total of 3.5 hectares of seabed. Seagrass can be as effective at storing carbon as our woodlands but UK has lost around half of its seagrass since the mid-1930s. Project partners to share expertise with marine conservation projects taking place around Europe to…
10,000 bags of seagrass seeds to be planted at Plymouth Sound
Volunteers are busy packing 10,000 bags of seagrass seeds for planting underwater in Plymouth Sound. Research shows at least 44 per cent of the UK’s seagrass has been lost since 19361. This restoration work is part of England’s largest seagrass planting effort under the LIFE Recreation ReMEDIES partnership, led by Natural England. The partnership’s restoration…
Plymouth’s underwater success story for COP26
Planting grass on the seabed in Plymouth is one of the UK’s green success stories being shared at COP26 in Glasgow. The ambition to take seagrass seeds from healthy underwater meadows, cultivate them in the laboratory and then plant a total of eight hectares sounds like science fiction. But already one hectare – the equivalent…
Seeds collected for Solent seagrass restoration
Scuba divers have collected more than half a million seeds from healthy seagrass meadows around Osborne Bay, Yarmouth and Bouldnor in the Solent for replanting in parts of the Solent where seagrass has been lost or degraded. More seed collection dives will take place in Looe and Falmouth in Cornwall this month. It is part…
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The seabed and YOU
Our new Education Officer, Esther Farrant, based at Ocean Conservation Trust, talks us through some of the outreach and education highlights from her first few months… ReMEDIES outreach events and education programme have really been ramping up recently. Several primary schools in Plymouth have now been involved in a seed planting workshop and are keen…
Life in the lab
Our new seagrass cultivation officer, Amelia Newman based at Ocean Conservation Trust, has just finished preparing the seagrass lab at the National Marine Aquarium ready for the next stage of our restoration work… It’s a busy time in the lab as we care for more than 3 million seagrass seeds that will be used in…
Protecting the Essex Estuaries
We partnered Essex Wildlife Trust and trained a team of volunteers to conduct recreational activity observations along the Essex coastline over the summer. Alan Kavanagh, Natural England’s Essex Site Lead, and volunteer Cameron Alston, explain how and why we did it… Why Essex Estuaries? With 350 miles of varied coastline, Essex provides unique opportunities to…
WATCH: Installing helical screw piles
Our team has been installing helical screw piles at Jennycliff and Cawsand Bays in Devon and Cornwall. They are to support Advanced Mooring Systems (AMS) for boat moorings, Voluntary No-Anchor Zone markers and swim markers. AMS have been specially designed to minimise interaction with the seabed, reducing the potential damage to sensitive seabed habitats. Watch…
When volunteers help conservation
Science is difficult and must be done by professionals. Or must it? When Marine Conservation Society (MCS) was offered the chance to work with a volunteer yachtsman, Mr Chris Cooling, aboard his ocean-going yacht (Allegra), we grabbed the chance with both hands. In marine conservation, budgets aren’t at the levels required to map every single…
Surveying Cornish Seagrass and Maerl
High summer diving in Cornwall doesn’t come much more iconic than a trip out of Porthkerris on the Lizard Peninsula, transferring your dive kit over the beach and up the gangplank onto the boat
Back to School with the Seabed
With schools returning after the summer break, we are looking forward to getting back in the classroom to have loads of fun learning about the seabed.
Seasearch survey in the Solent
Hampshire Seasearch volunteers surveyed a large seagrass bed just east of the busy port of Yarmouth, Isle of Wight, at the end of June.
A Fun Summer of Seabed Activities
With the Summer Holidays in full swing, we are all looking for fun things to do, whatever the weather. The Ocean is a great source of inspiration for activities, both outdoors and inside your homes.
ReMEDIES at Sail GP
Now that summer is here and public events are slowly starting to return, the ReMEDIES partnership is getting out and about to showcase our work, starting at Sail GP.
