Green, green seagrass of home: Welsh nursery growing to save marine habitat

Seagrass is a flowering plant that lives in shallow, sheltered bays and provides a vital habitat for range of species and provides an important carbon sink. Photograph: Dimitris Legakis/The Guardian

It is a much-loved stretch of Celtic coastline, revered by poetry lovers as the place where Dylan Thomas lived his final years and by thrill seekers as a spot for breaking land-speed records.

Now between Thomas’s boathouse home at Laugharne and the natural fast track of Pendine Sands in south-west Wales, an ambitious project is under way to try to help restore one of the world’s most important and threatened habitats: seagrass meadows.