Reforesting the Sea

The Reforesting the Sea project has as its global strategy of restoration, the elimination of threats that cause the degradation of seagrass meadows. The action plan aims to directly restore degraded areas of a seagrass meadow damaged by docking anchors.

The seagrass meadow benefiting from the project is the Soltróia prairie, in the Sado estuary, with an area of 13ha. It is located along a thin strip on the south bank of the estuary, on the coast of Tróia, and consists mainly of the species Cymodocea nodosa and contains plants of Zostera noltei and Zostera marina.

The project will leverage durable changes that will leave Soltróia’s marine prairie in better shape. The following expected results are:

1. Restoration of the Cymodocea nodosa prairie, fragmented by an extensive mooring cable;
2. Mitigation of the degradation of the meadow by the cables of the moorings, through the placement of buoys friendly to the prairies.

The project team will consist of elements from Ocean Alive, “Guardiãs do Mar”, who will be responsible for placing the buoys, and a scientific team from CCMAR, which is responsible for repairing the scar of the Cymodocea nodosa prairie caused by the cable.