Posted on October, 14 2025
Our seas provide us with invaluable benefits every day, keeping the pulse of our planet and people in check. They are crucial in mitigating climate change, boosting our health and well-being and providing livelihoods for coastal communities. But with vital marine habitats like seagrass meadows, wetlands, and estuaries disappearing in the EU, the pulse of our seas weakens. In turn, they struggle to sustain the benefits they bring to people. More than 40% of the EU population lives in coastal regions — and they need our action more than ever.
WWF has developed a new website in which we have laid out 10 key principles for effective marine and coastal restoration in the EU, in line with the EU Nature Restoration Law. Based on peer-reviewed literature and analysis and backed by case studies, they will help to ensure restoration is effective, lasting, and science-based.
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