The partnership’s long-term aim is to protect and restore the Solent’s seascape, tipping the balance from a degraded state to a naturally expanding, connected and productive ecosystem.
The Solent Seascape Project area stretches across more than 52,000 hectares of coastal and marine habitats in the Solent, one of the most heavily used waterways in Europe. Its complex network of harbours, islands, estuaries and sandbanks are a haven for an astounding array of wildlife across a diverse range of habitats. However, these face many severe threats, such as overuse, erosion, poor water quality and sea level rise, with many habitats, and the species they support, either lost or in decline.
To stop and reverse this, we are working to re-create a wildlife-rich network of interconnected marine and coastal habitats – known as a seascape-scale approach to marine and coastal restoration.
We are restoring seagrass, oyster reefs, saltmarsh and seabird nesting habitats across the Solent’s seascape to improve ecological connectivity, whilst working collaboratively with local communities to foster a deeper understanding of seascape processes, encourage behavioural change, and increase involvement in the recovery of their seascape.
In addition, we are also working with landowners, industry and regulatory bodies to improve the protection and management of existing habitats by co-developing an ambitious Seascape Recovery Plan for the Solent. By restoring the Solent ecosystem, we hope this will reduce the impacts of climate change, provide vital nursery grounds for commercially important fish, protect coastal homes from erosion and sea level rise, help to enhance water quality and improve social wellbeing by providing areas for local people and tourists to explore their natural environment.
The collaborative project involves 10 key partners, led by Blue Marine Foundation. We are using nature-based solutions to help fight the impacts of climate change at the strait between the south coast of England and the Isle of Wight.
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Conservationists have welcomed the Environment Secretary, Steve Reed’s, undertaking to halve sewage pollution to rivers and coastlines in the next five years.
21 July 2025
Most of the Solent’s habitats and species are struggling, with many having suffered dramatic declines.
27 January 2025
The Solent Seascape Project is restoring lost habitats and building climate resilience in one of the UK’s most pressured marine areas.
27 January 2025
Foundations for the largest restoration reef in the Solent have been laid this week, as part of the Solent Seascape Project – a multi-million pound initiative to restore marine habitats across the Solent region.
03 April 2023
Blue Marine Foundation (BLUE) is committed to working with the fishing community to ensure their livelihoods thrive within the area while seeing biodiversity increases and stock recovery.
24 February 2023
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The Convex Seascape Survey is a pioneering five-year research project that is attempting to unlock one of the great mysteries of our time – the role of seabed carbon in mitigating climate change.
Rich in sea life, poor in conservation – Greece aims to transform that narrative with a recent commitment to protecting 32 per cent of its waters by 2030. Blue Marine supports ocean protection here across ten different projects .
Over 96 per cent of highly productive and biodiverse kelp beds have been lost along the Sussex coast in the past 40 years. Protected by a trawling ban that Blue Marine and partners helped secure, research shows how marine life is bouncing back.
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