Seagrass conservation funding

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The UK’s Ocean Conservation has received a grant of £250,000 from the government’s Green Recovery Challenge Fund, enabling large scale seagrass restoration.

Black goby in seagrass

This is one of the first environmental projects awarded a grant from the government’s £80 million Green Recovery Challenge Fund. Defra announced grants between £62,000 and £3.8 million, to help create and retain thousands of green jobs.

Mark Parry, Development Officer at the Ocean Conservation Trust said: “It is hugely exciting to be awarded this funding from the Green Recovery Challenge Fund for restoration of subtidal seagrass beds. The project looks to take an innovative and fresh approach to seagrass restoration and will demonstrate large scale restoration techniques with the aim of recovering the benefits to fisheries and adding to carbon sequestration.”

68 projects have been awarded grants between £62k and £3.8 million to kick-start a pipeline of nature-based projects while creating and retaining jobs. This first funding round has seen a £40 million pot allocated, with a second round of funding to open in early 2021.

By Jake Frith