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About the Initiative:
- Objective: To make the Baltic Sea greener.
- Providing training to local citizens to restore seagrass in the Baltic Sea, which can help combat climate change.
About Sea Grass:
- Flowering plant grows mostly in shallow coastal waters.
- Provides ecosystem services like stabilizing sediments, and providing habitat for marine species.
- Help to mitigate climate change by absorbing and storing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.
- Seagrass is under threat due to coastal development, pollution, and climate change.
- Conservation efforts are important to protect and restore these valuable ecosystems
About Baltic Sea:
- It is a brackish inland sea located in Northern Europe, bordered by Sweden, Finland, Russia, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Germany, and Denmark.
- It is one of the largest brackish water bodies in the world.
Why in news:
Just off the coast of Kiel in northern Germany, citizen divers restore seagrass to fight climate change.
