SEA-CHANGERS MARINE CONSERVATION GRANTS – apply now! Sea-Changers gives grants to UK-based charities and not-for-profit organisations (including schools) carrying out marine conservation related activities. We are currently accepting applications to our Main, Innovation and Small grants funds. For all our funding streams, the projects we fund will achieve one or more […]
Greenpeace UK has placed 18 limestone boulders on the seabed in the South West Deeps (East) Marine Conservation Zone with the aim of disrupting industrial fishing. The environmental group dropped the boulders into the ocean about 200 miles (322km) off Cornwall from its ship Arctic Sunrise. It aims to create a barrier making […]
An extract from the Institute of Fisheries Management (IFM) press release: Her Majesty’s Planning Inspectorate has rejected an appeal by the under-construction Hinkley C nuclear power plant in the Bristol Channel against the requirement for a state-of-the-art acoustic fish deterrent on its cooling water intake. EDF Energy is developing a new nuclear power […]
ECOWind is bringing together experts from science, policy and industry to understand how offshore wind affects ecosystems, and the species and habitats that make them, in order to reduce negative impacts on marine life while tackling climate change. From seven shortlisted projects, three have now been selected for funding. The projects will explore the effects […]
Concerned members of the public have joined forces with environmental activists to protest the over the mass deaths of marine life and pollution on the Teesside coast. Tens of thousands of the crustaceans first washed up on shores from Seaton Carew down to Whitby in October 2021. Defra previously said it had “completed […]
A study, published in Nature Climate Change, outlines a new index – the Climate Risk Index for Biodiversity (CRIB) – that assesses the climate risk for nearly 25,000 marine species and their ecosystems. The findings show that, under very high emissions, almost 90% of these species are put at high or critical risk, with […]
Defra has launched a consultation to gather evidence on the impact of fly seining in English waters to support sustainable fishing and reduce pressure on fish stocks, Fishing Daily has reported. Fly seining, also known as fly shooting or demersal seining, is a fishing method involving long weighted ropes to herd fish into the mouth […]
A study from Offshore Energies UK (OEUK) has found that nearly half the offshore wind projects needed to reach the government’s 2030 target are only at concept stage. Such projects typically take 13-plus years to move from concept to operation, many far longer, largely due to delays in government planning and approval processes. It means […]