Malta’s underwater forest: restoring Posidonia meadows that keep our sea alive
1An extraordinary habitat is quietly sustaining our way of life right beneath the glittering surface of Malta’s sea: the Posidonia oceanica . On land, you may recognise it as heaps of dark brown, fibrous seagrass known as banquettes, but underwater this seagrass stretches across the seabed like a vast green forest. And unlike seaweed, this seagrass