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UNSW UNSW Science’s Associate Professor Adriana Vergés explains why she is one of the driving forces behind the Manly Seaweed Forests Festival. Associate Professor Adriana Vergés and the Operation Crayweed team started restoring Sydney’s underwater forests in 2011. The impetus for the work came from the disappearance of seaweed from much of Sydney’s coastline due to pollution caused by sewerage outfalls on beaches from the seventies through to the 1990s. The eventual construction of deep ocean outfalls to empty Sydney’s sewerage system gave scientists a chance to start rebuilding the important ecosystems near the shoreline. They have been incredibly successful in their underwater gardening initiatives, restoring habitat in six locations along the Sydney coastline, including Cabbage Tree Bay, Little Bay, Coogee, Newport and Freshwater. In 2018, A/Prof Vergés launched Operation Posidonia to encourage local coastal communities to help restore ecologically and economically

New south walesWestern australiaLittle bayGreat southernPalm beachCabbage tree bayGreat barrier reefComunidad autonoma de catalunaAdriana vergTim flanneryMichael hedgerJennifer turpinMichaelie crawfordSydney institute of marine scienceManly art gallery museumDepartment of primary industries