Recovering
Neptune grass
Posidonia oceanica
Anchors the sediment; the backbone of every replanted plot.
Zone 03 · Overview
The shallow shelf is our slowest, most physical programme: divers plant shoots by hand, then return every season to count survivors. A restored meadow stores carbon for centuries, but only if the sediment holds.
Blue-carbon meadows replanted shoot by shoot along four kilometres of protected coast.
Associated species
Improving
Green turtle
Chelonia mydas
Grazing returned to plot S4 two seasons after replanting.
Stable
Pipefish
Syngnathus typhle
A reliable indicator that canopy density has recovered.
Network updates
16 AugNode S4Shoot survival at 78 % — highest of any plot to date.
05 AugNode S9Anchor scar mapped and fenced ahead of autumn replanting.
24 JulNode S12Sediment cores sampled for the annual blue-carbon estimate.
Continue the descent
