Lead institution:
Sydney Institute of Marine Science – Australia
This Programme brings together multiple ecosystem restoration initiatives to provide a template for restoration of whole seascapes on urbanized areas across the globe.
The WHSR Programme focus on ecosystems well-known for their current degradation status and their important ecosystem services such as seagrass beds, shellfish reefs, kelp forests, saltmarshes, mangroves, rocky reefs and coral reefs. Additionally, in collaboration with the internationally awarded Living Seawalls Project, this Programme will enhance and rehabilitate ecosystem services of urbanized areas where ecosystem restoration is unfeasible with the use of innovative solutions such as seawall habitat panels and ReefPods. This project will be amongst the first, globally, to move beyond habitat-by-habitat approaches to restoration, to provide an example of how multispecies restoration can be conducted at scale to not only maximise ecological but also socio-economic benefits.
Start Date: 01/01/2023
End Date: 31/12/2030
Lead Contact: Martina Doblin (martina.doblin@sims.org.au)