Crayweed Cup

Crayweed Cup

The ocean is the largest carbon sink on the planet. These cups highlight the importance of our local seaweeds - Crayweed, Neptune’s Necklace and Golden Kelp whose vast underwater forests provide food and habitat for hundreds of species of fish, molluscs, abalone and crayfish. Seaweed sequesters immense amounts of atmospheric carbon, produces oxygen for marine life and supports unique biodiversity. These modest algae are the lungs of the sea and protecting them is critical to limiting global warming.

The Crayweed cup is good news story of Crayweed regeneration by local marine ecologists. In the 1980’s mass extinction of the beautiful golden Crayweed occurred along the Sydney coastline from Palm Beach to Cronulla due to pollution and warming waters. Operation Crayweed is a successful regeneration project led by Professor Adriana Verges and her team, based at UNSW and the Sydney Institute of Marine Science. Transplants of crayweed have now been re-established and are thriving across much of Sydney including Coogee, Bondi, Freshwater, Dee Why and Cabbage Tree bay in Manly returning essential habitat and food sources for Sydney’s coastal marine biodiversity and operating as a valuable carbon sink to reduce carbon emissions.

Colours – natural porcelain, Sea blue, Sea Green, Neptune’s green.