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The following images have been provided for free one-off use by the press for any articles which cover the World Atlas of Seagrasses. Any use of these images should be acknowledged.

In addition, many photos from the Atlas are available for inclusion into articles, however payment will be required directly to owners of the images.

World Seagrass Distribution	Corinna Ravilious	Worldwide there are 274 Marine Protected Areas known to include seagrass, covering 72 countries. But the vast majority do not provide any clear protection for seagrasses.	tif 3,759bytes jpeg 543bytes
Table 3		Threatened species regularly recorded from seagrass communities	tif 393bytes jpeg 393bytes
Table 6		Sumary of goods and services provided by seagrass ecosystems	tif 285bytes jpeg 78bytes
Western Europe
Western Europe (North)	Corinna Ravilious	In western Europe many commercial fish and shellfish species use seagrass (eelgrass) meadows as a habitat, and for spawning sites and nursery areas. This includes crab, shrimp, clams and razor shells.	tif 531bytes jpeg 163bytes
UK Seahorses	Kelvin Boot National Aquarium Plymouth	Seagrasses in the UK are home to rare seahorses Hippocampus hippocampus (short-snouted); Hippocampus guttulatus (long-snouted). UK case-study available	Seahorse jpeg 4bytes 2nd Seahorse jpeg 7bytes
	The Zoological Society of London	Long-snouted seahorse found on UK Seagrass	jpeg 159bytes
Mediterranean seagrass beds	J Harmelin	Commercial fish uses seagrass for a critical part of their lifecycle - bream(Diplodus spp) and saupe(Sarpa sarpa).	tif 3,884bytes jpeg472bytes
Africa
Seagrass beach cast in Mombasa Marine National Park	PLA Erftemeijer	Seagrass beach cast in Mombasa Marine National Park. Significant amounts of seagrass litter are washed up on the Kenyan beaches with each tide. Case-study available	jpeg 456bytes
Australia
Posidonia Australis fruit meadow	D Walker	Australia Seagrass watch has shown that even following acute impact, seagrass meadows can recover within 3 years if protected and managed effectively. Case-study available	jpeg 154bytes
Sea horses in Sydney harbour	JC Jones	Hippocampus whitei among Zostera capricorni	jpeg 407bytes
Thailand
Dugong and seagrass on Thai Stamp		More than 60 per cent of people along the Andaman Sea appreciate the importance of Dugongs and seagrasses. Case-study available	jpeg 64bytes
Indonesia
Image VIII	Nature Conservancy	Recreational fisher standing in seagrass bed, Bali, Indonesia	tif 7,515bytes jpeg 701bytes
North America
Maquoit Bay in Cape Cod, Maine USA	J Sowles	Scars in the eelgrass bed caused by mussel dragging. Case-study available	jpeg 46bytes
Gulf
Green Turtle	Alex Stewart	The seagrass beds in the Gulf are home to the World's second largest group of endangered dugong dugon and significant populations of herbivorous green turtles.	jpeg 190bytes