Archive of: Marine

  • Stepping up for marine wildlife

    28 July 2020

    Stepping up for marine wildlife

    The Sussex Wildlife Trust is celebrating Marine Week and is stepping up its support for marine wildlife all along the coast of Sussex.

     
  • Marine Litter

    27 July 2020

    Marine Litter

    As Coronavirus lockdown measures continue to ease, there has been a noticeable spike in the amount of rubbish being left on beaches as more people are able to spend more time at the coast. Find out what you can do to help.

     
  • Species of the day: Common Shore Crab

    08 June 2020

    Species of the day: Common Shore Crab

    Today is International ‘World Oceans Day’ - in celebration of our magnificent marine environments, today’s blog features a familiar denizen of British shores, the Common Shore Crab

     
  • Review of Highly Protected Marine Areas published today

    08 June 2020

    Review of Highly Protected Marine Areas published today

    HPMAs would give the strictest possible environmental protections – all damaging activities would be banned

     
  • Nudibranchs AKA Seaslugs

    05 May 2020

    Nudibranchs AKA Seaslugs

    Ella Garrud spends lockdown thinking about what she might be seeing in rockpools, such as nudibranchs or seaslugs, which are not closely related to garden slugs.

     
  • Sussex Seahorses

    03 April 2020

    Sussex Seahorses

    We have had a few reports recently of sightings of one our most elusive marine creatures – the small yet charismatic seahorse.

     
  • Goose Barnacle, Barnacle Goose

    06 March 2020

    Goose Barnacle, Barnacle Goose

    Goose Barnacles, can be found in their thousands still clinging to their driftwood raft on the strandline, They once puzzled people for hundreds of years.

     
  • Slipper Limpet

    02 March 2020

    Slipper Limpet

    Along our Sussex beaches there are millions of shells of the Common Slipper Limpet - so named because the empty shells resemble tiny slippers up to 50mm long.

     
  • Glassworts

    26 January 2020

    Glassworts

    they are a flowering plant with what must be the smallest of flowers.

     
  • Help Our Kelp - Byelaw Update

    23 January 2020

    Help Our Kelp - Byelaw Update

    The pioneering campaign to restore a vast underwater Kelp forest off the Sussex coast achieved its first major milestone, as the introduction of a critical new byelaw has been agreed.

     
  • Creature feature: Green Shore Crab

    05 January 2020

    Creature feature: Green Shore Crab

    Green Shore Crabs have been recorded on every single Shoresearch survey we have undertaken in the last year

     
  • Merry Christmas from Sussex Seas

    23 December 2019

    Merry Christmas from Sussex Seas

    Here is some of our favourite festive-themed marine wildlife