A team at the University of New South Wales have banded together to innovate a concept that could save Sydney Harbour.
By simply changing the structure of the iconic harbour’s seawalls, more than 150 marine species will be able to thrive where they could not before.
In the project dubbed Living Seawalls, marine ecologist from UNSW Sydney and the Sydney Institute of Marine Science, Associate Professor Mayer Pinto, and her team are fitting textured concrete panels to sea walls to mimic oceanic structures.“More than 50 per cent of the Sydney Harbour shoreline is modified by seawalls,” she said.
“Sea walls not only cause habitat loss, but they’re not able to support as many organisms compared to natural rocky shores.”After more than 200 years of urbanisation, the quality of the marine life has been degraded and Living Seawalls seeks to restore its integrity.
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