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Saving Seagrass: Protection Over Planting

Associate Professor Dr Jillian Ooi, Marine Ecologist, University of Malaya

21-Apr-25 15:00

Saving Seagrass: Protection Over Planting

You’ve probably heard about saving coral reefs and planting mangroves, but what about seagrass? These underwater meadows are quietly holding up our coasts and climate, but we’re losing them fast - at about two football fields every hour, globally. In the first of a two part series on seagrass, we speak to marine ecologist Associate Professor Dr. Jillian Ooi, to help us understand seagrass better, why protecting existing seagrass is far more effective than replanting, and what’s at stake if we don’t act now.

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Produced by: Juliet Jacobs

Presented by: Juliet Jacobs


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Categories:  environment

Tags:  the bigger pictureearth mattersseagrassseagrass restorationseagrass replantingseagrass conservationmarine conservationmarine ecology





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