Sea grass is covering ten to 15% of the global carbon storage budget. It's a vital, supporting habitat for another fantastic species in itself and a commercially important species as well. Even at low water, you can see a lot going on. You now, the trails behind the snails. And you may occasionally see a little squirt, for example, from a burrowing worm or a burrowing am a shell squirting to water out this little crab wandering about over there.
They support an incredible array of biodiversity and may also be some of the world’s most effective carbon sinks. But vast swathes of seagrass meadows have been lost in the last century, and they continue to vanish at the rate of a football pitch every half hour. Madeleine Finlay makes a trip out of the Guardian office to visit a rewilding project in Hampshire. She speaks to marine biologist Tim Ferrero about the challenges of replanting seagrass meadows and what hope it offers.. Help support our independent journalism at
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