SEAGRASS SAVIOURS
As the tide reaches its lowest he picks seeds from the bright green plants swaying in the ebb and flow beneath him. Will, project lead on this loch seagrass project, is helping to restore some of the underwater seagrass meadows that have been lost in recent decades here on the west coast of Scotland. Seagrass is the only flowering plant that lives in seawater and pollinates while submerged. It starts to flower every June and once the seeds begin to mature in late July, Will and his team of wetsuited volunteers harvest hundreds of thousands of them from existing seagrass meadows, then return them to shore.
In an old wooden boatshed nearby, these stems are placed inside two holding tanks of seawater to
