23 Apr 2024

Two individual seahorses have been discovered just days apart in separate locations in English waters. A diving contractor found a female spiney seahorse whilst working in the Hamble Estuary, Hampshire whilst a Cornwall Council nature recovery officer spotted another spiney seahorse in a Cornish Estuary. The spiney seahorse is also known as the long-snouted seahorse. […]

04 Jan 2022

Thanks to Pamela Buchan for forwarding this. Ask your Council to declare an urgent need for Ocean Recovery ‘Ocean Conservation Trust ‘COP26 has had a raft of Ocean-themed events, showing that the tide is turning on Ocean neglect. With 2021 being the start of the UN Ocean Decade, we want to support local and national […]

07 Sep 2021

Championing Coastal Coordination (3Cs) – Call for Expressions of Interest – Environment Agency Introduction The Championing Coastal Coordination (3Cs) project is an Environment Agency initiative with support from Natural England, the Marine Management Organisation and the Association of Inshore Fisheries and Conservation Authorities. It is a collaboration seeking to explore how to enhance and progress […]

07 Sep 2021

Emma Sheehan and colleagues Abstract ‘Marine protected areas (MPAs) are employed as tools to manage human impacts, especially fishing pressure. By excluding the most destructive activities MPAs can rewild degraded areas of seabed habitat. The potential for MPAs to increase ecosystem resilience from storms is, however, not understood, nor how such events impact seabed habitats. […]