Thursday 14th July will mark the start of a two month-long Festival celebrating the 50th anniversary of the country’s first Marine Protected Area at Lundy. The Lundy Marine Festival is being organised and run by Robert Irving, a marine biological consultant who has been involved with Lundy and the management of its MPA for 40 […]
Fishing will no longer be permitted in a Jersey harbour after a vote to create a “no-take zone”. The zone aims to give marine life in Portelet Bay better protection and will also be used as a natural laboratory, the BBC reported. The regulations will come into force from 2 May 2022, making it an […]
‘The race for vast remote ‘marine protected areas’ may be a diversion’ Following the UK Government’s announcement of the huge Ascension island No Take Zone – Peter Jones reminded me of the series of articles he and Elizabeth De Santo wrote about the contrasting approaches by Governments – UK Government being a good example – in […]
UK takes step forward in global marine protection UK Government backs plans by Ascension Island to designate over 150,000 square miles of its waters as a fully protected no-take Marine Protected Area. More than half of the UK’s global waters are set to be within Marine Protected Areas, putting the UK at the forefront of […]
Roseanna Cunningham Environment Secretary visits COAST’s new visitor centre Cunningham commits to tackling “serious issues” of biodiversity loss and climate change Scottish Cabinet Secretary, Roseanna Cunningham, visited us this week at Scotland’s first MPA visitor centre, the Octopus Centre. COAST was pleased to see her interact with the new exhibitions and display her knowledge! But we were […]