Seawilding

This year, we are immensely proud to announce our blue carbon partnership with Seawilding. This partnership has enabled us to offset all of our clients and company’s carbon emissions. Seawilding, based at Loch Craignish, Scotland, is the UK’s first community-led native oyster and seagrass restoration project. Their aim is to restore lost biodiversity, sequester carbon, and to create green jobs. They are pioneering low-cost, best-practice marine habitat restoration methodologies and empowering other coastal communities to do the same. Together with Weatherby’s bank, we have marked this partnership with an opening donation of £25,000.

This donation will fund the training of four divers, which will reduce reseeding costs by up to 40%. It will enable the team to accelerate their Seagrass Restoration Programme and reach the goal of replanting 80 hectares of seagrass across Loch Craignish in a much shorter space of time.

Seawilding’s new scientific methodologies and research results will help inform the infant science of seagrass restoration. They go above and beyond to actively share their knowledge and provide open source guides for other coastal research projects worldwide in order to help them do the same.

In September 2022, the True Travel team took a trip to the western coast of Scotland to visit the Seawilding project in action. After spending an entire day immersed in the intricacies of their marine restoration methodology, the passion, determination and resilience of Danny, Seawilding’s founder, and the team was evident in abundance.

The tangible benefits of this programme will not only be felt in the Scottish and UK waters, but we are already seeing evidence of the positive impact of this restorative work as far as the Arctic. We are hugely passionate about supporting such a groundbreaking initiative and are enourmously optimistic about the potential it harbours.

The protection and restoration of existing seagrass meadows and native oyster beds is paramount, and we are immensely proud to support Seawilding.

We have now committed to raising a target of £100,000 for Seawilding by the end of 2023 to enable their team to continue developing their work in marine restoration at scale.

£150,00

Is the annual cost to run the Seagrass Restoration Programme including essential resources, scientific research and providing a living wage for the team.

133,000

Seeds could be harvested as a result of a total £100,000 donation at the end of 2023, enhancing thousands of acres of seagrass meadows across the U.K.