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In October 2019 an uncontrollable storm destroyed

Nemo’s Garden Structure. It was not the first time the structure had been compromised by storms and the chances of keeping the project alive became very low. Luckily, we did not give up.

We rebuilt Nemo’s Garden better and more stable than before as a sign of hope and resilience.

There is a story that influenced us to keep with the project Nemo’s Garden: a message we received from Marco, a fisherman from Noli, during the lock down due to Coronavirus Pandemic in which he shared the school assignment of his 11-year-old son, Lorenzo. A true storyIn October 2019 an uncontrollable storm destroyedNemo’s Garden Structure. It was not the first time the structure had been compromised by storms and the chances of keeping the project alive became very low. Luckily, we did not give up.We rebuilt Nemo’s Garden better and more stable than before as a sign of hope and resilience.There is a story that influenced us to keep with the project Nemo’s Garden: a message we received from Marco, a fisherman from Noli, during the lock down due to Coronavirus Pandemic in which he shared the school assignment of his 11-year-old son, Lorenzo. Click and check.

Summer 2020.

Nemo’s Garden is hosting life again.

In June, after the end of the lockdown in Italy, we finally could settle it up.

We pull out from the water thousand meters of cables destroyed in a storm last October. Then we cleaned and reconnected the biospheres.

Now we have 3 monitoring stations for the physical data of the six biospheres that are hosting more than 500 plants.

The plants are growing thanks to the light and the ventilation inside the spheres.



More flowers for our underwater Orchids. Click and check.



The Winter setup is done. A few days ago the Team's removed 3 biospheres out of 6. The uw habitat will be fully operative again on Spring 2020. No worries, the 3 deeper biospheres will remain underwater for further tests on plants and technology. Stay tuned with our future posts and discoveries HERE

During the past weeks we had Mrs.@Joanna Smart (Marine Biologist) running an #ecologicalsurvey about the impact of the Nemo's Garden habitat on the surrounding marine area. The results of the biodiversity survey, fish and invertebrates have shown Nemo’s Garden structure is having a positive impact on the ecology of the area. The site exhibited high levels of biodiversity, higher than the comparison site in the same area. The structure Nemo’s Garden provides is likely acting in a similar way to an artificial reef, providing habitat, food and shelter for a variety of species. Invertebrate density was 7 times higher at Nemo’s Garden than the comparison site, whilst Fish density was 58 times greater at Nemo’s Garden. Today we introduce one of these creatures living at the habitat: find it out HERE