She said: "The dunes are important for wildlife but also to provide a natural defence against increasing storms and rising sea levels. "Planting more marram grass aims to improve biodiversity and ...

People are planting marram grass at the dunes of Crantock Beach this week. People are planting marram grass at the dunes of Crantock Beach this week. BBC Homepage. Skip to content; ...

Liane Costello, Biodiversity Officer with Clean Coasts, guided the marram grass planting. She highlighted the importance of the plant in dune systems and praised the students’ enthusiasm.

andersdahl65/Getty Images. Marram grass at the beautiful beach near the coastline of the blue sea in northern Denmark.

The coastal Prince Edward Island National Park is small (10 sq mi/26 sq km), but it has soaring mounds of sand held together by fragile marram grass, which form a very special ecosystem. There is ...

Ammophila arenaria (marram grass) was introduced to South Africa from Europe as a means of stabilizing the Cape Flats in the 1870s, but was only successfully established in the 1890s as it was found ...

THE reader who expects under this title to find a dissertation on Psamma arenaria, the marram grass of the coasts of the British Isles, will be disappointed, for the plant is scarcely mentioned.