Our Bermuda Seagrass Project has installed cages covering a total of 2,295 square metres across 24 sites around Bermuda! Why is it important that we restore seagrass meadows?
🌱 Seagrass can decrease carbon in the atmosphere by removing carbon dioxide from seawater and converting it to stored, inactive, organic carbon helping to fight climate change. A byproduct of this process is oxygen. Most marine organisms cannot survive without oxygen.
🌱 Seagrass meadows can reduce erosion along coastlines during storms because they protect the sediment surface and bind the sediment in their roots and rhizomes.
🌱 They help maintain water quality. Seagrass meadows can prevent harmful algal blooms by utilizing nutrients from human pollution and other sources and trapping nutrients in the sediments.
🌱 Seagrass meadows can increase the pH levels of seawater enough to protect adjacent reefs from the effects of ocean acidification
🌱 Seagrass meadows growing close to coral reefs reduce coral diseases.
