2025 seagrass restoration

2025 seagrass project was a great success, our most efficient year yet! Over the 3 weeks we deployed 2000 sandbags with 16 000 seedlings attached. New volunteers joined the fun and some returning faces too, with over 50 volunteers in total helping.

We had all hands-on deck deploying, diving and using our brand-new sandbagging machine, the Baginator. This made for quick and easy sand bagging allowing us to fill 1 bag every 15 seconds.

The hessian bags were all purchased thanks to our supporters and donations. Having a trailer for the machine means we will be able to transport it for rapid response call-outs in cyclone or flood situations. Having this world class equipment would not be possible without donations and our supporters which have been outstanding again in helping with funding for the project.

We would also like to say a huge thank you to the Malgana group for their ongoing support with the project as well.

UWA’s has also been a vital cog in the machine making headways with their research. One of the findings was with the hessian bag quality which effects the derogation rate of each bag. So, this year we have implemented 10 ounce hessian bags which take a little longer to degrade allowing the seagrass to establish stable roots and the best chance of flourishing.

Our original goal of 6000 bags was unfortunately cut short due to permit delays, however we are eager to exceeded that goal next year. The 2 hectares we were able to plant this year is just a small drop in the ocean but will still go a long way in reviving our seagrass meadow to its former glory!

With our partners Ozfish we are looking at expanding to all over Western Australia. The meadow here in Monkey Mia is the largest in Australia but there are many other meadows in WA that need assistance too. We are very excited about possibilities for the future through sharing our learnings from Monkey Mia and adapting them to other parts of Australia.