Flo Stadler, 36, an IT engineer and campaign leader of the maritime conservation group Sea Shepherd, and Angela Stevenson, 39, a marine scientist for GEOMAR, bundle and store harvested seagrass shoots from a donor meadow during a two-day citizen diver course that aims to re-green large parts of the Baltic Sea, near Kiel, Germany July 1, 2023. The citizen diver course is part of the SeaStore Seagrass Restoration Project at GEOMAR and is one of the first initiatives to teach and enable citizens to restore seagrass autonomously. The citizen diver course is part of the SeaStore Seagrass Restoration Project at GEOMAR and is one of the first initiatives to teach and enable citizens to restore seagrass autonomously. "Our aim is to scale it up after this pilot period," said Stevenson. "The ultimate goal is to re-green the Baltic Sea." REUTERS/Lisi Niesner