From more extreme weather events to loss of habitats and species, the effects of our warming planet are all around us. Nature does offer inherent solutions to some of the human-made damage that affects wildlife and habitats – in the form of coastal ecosystems like seagrass meadows. They can store up to 10 times more carbon than a similar sized tropical rainforest, and provide essential habitat for endangered marine life.
But even this natural defence system is under threat – the UK has lost up to 92% of its seagrass beds over the past 100 years, due to the effects of pollution, disease and coastal development.
