Seagrass beds
WHS that include extensive seagrass beds in their core zones.
Connected Sites
| Site | Rationale | Link |
| Aldabra Atoll | "Marine habitats range from coral reefs to seagrass beds" (crit vii) | |
| Banc d'Arguin | the vast expanse of marshes covered with seagrass beds (crit ix) | |
| Belize Barrier Reef | seagrass beds interspersed with lagoonal reefs (crit ix) | |
| Everglades | "seagrass ecosystems important to commercial and recreational fisheries" (crit ix) | |
| Great Barrier Reef | "The shallower marine areas support half the world's diversity of mangroves and many seagrass species." (crit x) | |
| Ibiza | "very well preserved prairies of oceanic Posidonia (seagrass)" (AB ev) | |
| Sanganeb | "some of the most northerly coral reefs in the world associated with species (including seagrass and mangroves) at the limits of their global range and evolutionary expansion" (OUV) | |
| Shark Bay | "Wooramel Seagrass Bank within Shark Bay, one of the largest seagrass meadows in the world with the most seagrass species recorded from one area" (crit vii) | |
| Sian Ka'an | "a fascinating marine area with noteworthy corals and seagrass beds" (OUV) | |
| Tasmanian Wilderness | "The world’s most southerly and isolated temperate seagrass beds and giant kelp forests occur in Port Davey and Bathurst Harbour" (Crit X) |
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