Seagrass meadows are highly productive marine ecosystems supporting enormous biodiversity and providing habitat for species including seahorses, cuttlefish, and juvenile fish, making their restoration a high-impact welfare and conservation action.
Seagrass restoration serves the welfare of enormous numbers of individual marine animals that depend on these productive habitats for food, shelter, and reproduction. Seahorses unable to grasp seagrass blades are unable to maintain position in currents and face predation exposure. Juvenile fish using seagrass as nursery habitat face elevated predation pressure in degraded or absent meadows. The restoration of seagrass through seed collection and planting, combined with reduction of the water quality problems that caused their decline, creates new welfare-supporting habitat at scale. Supporting seagrass restoration is one of the most impactful marine welfare investments available.