Archive of: Marine

  • Have your say on Rampion 2

    07 September 2021

    Have your say on Rampion 2

    Time is running out to have your say on plans to expand the Rampion Offshore Windfarm off the Sussex coast.

     
  • Meet the Tompot Blenny

    01 August 2021

    Meet the Tompot Blenny

    Meet the Tompot Blenny - ‘The small fish with a big personality’

     
  • Ghost Fishing Gear

    30 July 2021

    Ghost Fishing Gear

    Watch Ghost Fishing UK retrieve an old trawl net from a wreck off Brighton

     
  • Rewilding the Sussex Seas

    08 July 2021

    Rewilding the Sussex Seas

    Thanks to the players of People’s Postcode Lottery the Sussex Kelp Restoration Project has been established to ensure the successful restoration of a crucial marine ecosystem along the Sussex Coast from Chichester to Rye.

     
  • Environmental Impact Assessment needed to protect chalk reef says Judicial Review

    06 July 2021

    Environmental Impact Assessment needed to protect chalk reef says Judicial Review

    ​Sussex Wildlife Trust welcomes the court decision which has overturned the proposed reconstruction and extension of sea defences that threaten the internationally important chalk reef at Cuckmere Haven.

     
  • Government says yes to Highly Protected Marine Areas

    08 June 2021

    Government says yes to Highly Protected Marine Areas

    The Wildlife Trusts cheer long fought-for arrival of first ever sea sanctuaries where all damaging activities will be banned

     
  • Encouraging signs for Sussex Kelp

    18 May 2021

    Encouraging signs for Sussex Kelp

    Dr Raymond Ward is a principal lecturer in coastal environments at the University of Brighton and an avid diver. In a guest blog, Ray tells us of some encouraging signs that kelp is already starting to bounce back in our waters.

     
  • A paddle in the sea to lift your mood

    10 May 2021

    A paddle in the sea to lift your mood

    Nikki Hills takes the plunge - or rather dips a toe in some salty water and feels the benefit

     
  • Marine creatures with feet

    25 April 2021

    Marine creatures with feet

    Feet aren’t really a body part you’d associate with creatures living in an aquatic environment; most animals swim effortlessly, drift in the current, or crawl across the sea bed. However, one group of marine animals do indeed have feet, just not in the same sense that us land-lubbers have them.

     
  • Help Our Kelp Q&A

    08 April 2021

    Help Our Kelp Q&A

    Dr Ian Hendy (University of Portsmouth) and Sarah Ward (Sussex Wildlife Trust) answer your questions about the exciting kelp forest restoration project

     
  • Black Bream Nests

    29 March 2021

    Black Bream Nests

    When we think of nests, our thoughts immediately go to birds, building intricate shelters in which to lay their eggs and rear their newborns. However, a number of fishes also create nests

     
  • Turning the tide

    22 March 2021

    Turning the tide

    Today the new Nearshore Trawling Byelaw has been announced. This is a major milestone for Sussex and we are thrilled. As a result of this byelaw, trawling will be excluded from the West Sussex Nearshore waters out to 4km. Our local and national decision makers have made real space for nature.

     

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