13 Aug 2018

Two initiatives to help promote educational measures in ocean literacy Accelerating Ocean Literacy in UK Culture Both the Marine Conservation Society and the Thames Estuary Partnership (TEP) have had long involvement in the education process. Through discussions as members of the Marine CoLABoration (funded by Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation), we recognised the opportunity for more focus in the curriculum for UK schools […]

02 May 2018

Severn Trent – Cash for Catchments: The Catchment Based Approach (CaBA) partnerships were brought in by Defra in 2011 to help achieve the Water Framework Directive initiatives. These partnerships bring together a wide range of local organisations (including NGOs, water companies, local authorities, landowners, angling clubs, farming groups, academia, and local businesses) to promote collaborative […]

26 Feb 2018

COAST: ‘As Fiona Gell recently wrote in The Guardian, it is ordinary people who are driving the future of conservation, the government is recognising this, and starting to listen to what coastal communities have to say.   Many Scottish people and communities have been making an extraordinary difference to the protection of our seas during these […]

13 Feb 2018

Collaboration at various geographic scales is being increasingly highlighted as the way we can achieve major changes in the way we tackle the biggest issues in the marine environment. These two contributions are thought provoking in different ways. How NOT to eat an elephant.  A very different way of thinking on this advice to problem […]