Archive of: Marine
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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.
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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.
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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
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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26 January 2020
Glassworts
they are a flowering plant with what must be the smallest of flowers.
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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.
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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
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23 December 2019
Merry Christmas from Sussex Seas
Here is some of our favourite festive-themed marine wildlife