Common eelgrass
This seagrass species is a kind of flowering plant that lives beneath the sea, providing an important habitat for many rare and wonderful species.
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Seagrass
Meadows of seagrass spread across the seabed, their dense green leaves sheltering a wealth of wildlife including our two native species of seahorse.
Restoring Cornwall’s Seagrass
Seagrass is a wonder-plant: providing a home for marine life, supporting fisheries and storing carbon which helps to fight climate change. Cornwall Wildlife Trust is restoring Cornwall’s lost seagrass meadows by partnering with Seasalt Cornwall on an exciting three-year project in the Fal Estuary.
Superheroes save the seagrass of Mount's Bay
Volunteers from Mount's Bay Marine Group are saving their local seagrass patch - surveying the seagrass beds and kelp forests situated in the conservation zone of Mount's Bay, aiming to…
Looe Bay Super Seagrass
New research has revealed that seagrass beds in Looe Bay are up to ten times larger than those in Plymouth, Falmouth and Torbay, making them one of the largest such habitats in the whole of Devon…
Your local seagrass restoration project needs you!
Cornwall Wildlife Trust are on a mission to restore our local intertidal seagrass meadows. Now we need your help to identify new areas to restore.
One of the UK’s largest known seagrass beds discovered in St Austell Bay
A report published this April by Cornwall Wildlife Trust and Natural England has revealed that St Austell Bay supports the largest known subtidal seagrass bed in Cornwall – and is one of the…
Seasalt partners with Cornwall Wildlife Trust on pioneering seagrass restoration project
The launch of a new project to restore Cornwall’s carbon-capturing seagrass meadows has been announced today during National Marine Week.
Seagrass meadows ready to take root as Cornwall Wildlife Trust's restoration trials begin
Cornwall Wildlife Trust’s first attempt at restoring seagrass in Cornwall is underway. Experts from the Trust's marine team hope the partnership project could lead to a restoration roll-out…
Seagrass Battles to Return to the Helford – What We’re Learning from a Milestone in Cornwall’s Restoration Journey
After 40 years, intertidal seagrass has grown in the Helford River, marking a breakthrough in Cornwall Wildlife Trust and Seasalt’s restoration efforts.
Seeding hope: seagrass planting project in Cornish estuary exceeds expectations
Cornwall Wildlife Trust’s pioneering project attempting to restore climate change-fighting marine plants in Cornwall has so far exceeded expectations.