When boats full of seagrass seeds set sail off the English coast in April, it was with an ambitious agenda – to carry out England’s largest seagrass restoration project.

The goal is to plant eight hectares of seagrass meadows off the country’s southern coast over the next four years. In a massive community effort, volunteers bagged seeds at the National Marine Aquarium in Plymouth, and planters from the Ocean Conservation Trust (OCT) dropped the bags on the seabed. The seeds will eventually poke through the bags and start growing on the ocean floor.