Paragon Europe

SEAFOREST LIFE is a European LIFE project, for the conservation of seagrass meadows of the Mediterranean, in order to help fighting climate change.

Sea meadows have the unique capacity to produce oxygen and capture carbon dioxide in the blades, therefore, it is an ecosystem of vital importance in the battle against climate change. Despite global protection we are witnessing the loss of sea meadow habitat, already 29% of the sea meadows in the world have disappeared due to human activity.

SEAFOREST LIFE creates concrete actions for the conservation of sea meadows, aiming to reduce their degradation which continues unabated. The project will help parks to quantify the carbon deposits in their sea meadows and identify methods of reducing these through the management of docks.

To resolve the problem of the anchoring of boats inside the sea meadow, we are creating a plan to manage the traffic in the most critical zones. We will substitute non-functional docking areas with models which are more effective and sustainable and also support docking outside of the sea meadows. These actions will allow these habitats to recuperate and regrow where they were once in danger of dying out.

The project will be carried out in two Italian regions, and target the protected areas of these regions. The national parks of Cilento e Vallo di Diano in Campania, Asinara and the Arcipelago di La Maddalena in Sardegna. In the second phase, the model will be exported to Malta. The exportation of the model aims to show the replicability of the project and its impacts across different environments.

Second day of the meeting in Malta (4th of March, 2020) for the Women in Social Enterprise Development (WISED).

Well done to all the partners!