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Seagrass Spotter Session with Restoration Forth
Created: 29/04/2025
News/Events Category: Community Events
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When: 9.30am - 12.00pm, Friday 16 May 2025
Where: Beacon Leisure Centre, Lammerlaws Road, Burntisland, KY3 9BS
This event is being organised by The Ecology Centre
It is too late to book a place for this particular session, sorry about that.
The Ecology Centre is running a Seagrass spotter session in Burntisland to share knowledge with communities in Fife about how to identify seagrass species. This session will use the Seagrass Spotter app developed by Restoration Forth’s Project Seagrass as a method to identify and log sightings of seagrass. Seagrass meadows are critical to all life on our planet.
Seagrasses are marine flowering plants that thrive in shallow waters across the globe, from tropical regions to the Arctic Circle. They form dense underwater meadows that are vital to both ecosystems and human communities. They support food security through fish production, enhance water quality by acting as natural filters, protect coastlines from erosion, storms, and flooding, and play a crucial role in carbon sequestration and storage.
Despite their importance, seagrass meadows are threatened. Since 1880, ~20% of global seagrass meadows have been lost. Recent estimates reveal persistent declines of 1%–2% per year. Unfortunately, seagrasses remain one of the least protected coastal ecosystems, facing threats from coastal development, nutrient run-off, and climate change.
The message is urgent: healthy seagrasses are key to mitigating climate change, adapting to its impacts, building resilience, and providing numerous societal benefits. Immediate action is needed to protect seagrasses by prioritising ambitious, coordinated efforts in conservation, sustainable management, and restoration.
Please come along and learn how to help save this vital plant. Please download the Seagrass Spotter App on your mobile before the session, so you can log sightings during this event.
The group will meet at the Beacon Leisure Centre waterfront car park at 09:30am on May 16, where they will meet with Lyle, the Ecology Centre’s Seagrass Officer, who will lead this event. The group will learn about Restoration Forth and seagrass before accessing the beach. The activity will last roughly 2.5 hours and attendees will walk out across the sands during low tide to inspect the seagrass meadow on Burntisland Sands.
Click here to find out more about the event and book your place.
Contact: Lyle Boyle
E-mail: [email protected]
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