Archive of: Marine

  • Oil on Sussex beaches

    10 December 2019

    Oil on Sussex beaches

    One aspect of our seas has greatly improved in recent years - oil dumped by shipping…

     
  • Leatherback Turtle

    14 November 2019

    Leatherback Turtle

    Astonishingly, a Leatherback Turtle was spotted last month just off Brighton, it’s incredibly rare to spot one this far east in the Channel.

     
  • Climate, Oceans and Coastal Communities Conference

    17 October 2019

    Climate, Oceans and Coastal Communities Conference

    This hugely successful conference was organised by the Centre for Aquatic Environments (University of Brighton), United Nations Association (London and South East), and the Sussex Wildlife Trust, attracting over 150 delegates to the University’s Moulsecoomb campus on the 10 October 2019

     
  • Help Our Kelp consultation

    02 October 2019

    Help Our Kelp consultation

    Dr Sean Ashworth from Sussex IFCA writes about the public consultation on near shore trawling

     
  • Help Our Kelp

    30 September 2019

    Help Our Kelp

    Read about plans to restore a vast underwater kelp forest off the Sussex coast.

     
  • Sussex by the Sea

    22 September 2019

    Sussex by the Sea

    Nikki Hills explores the Sussex coast near Eastbourne

     
  • Starfish

    09 August 2019

    Starfish

    Starfish are among the most ancient life forms on the planet. The earliest fossils date back 450 million years!

     
  • Hydroids and Bryozoans: The Weird and Wonderful

    06 August 2019

    Hydroids and Bryozoans: The Weird and Wonderful

    Sussex Wildlife Trust was happy to host a specialist marine identification course for our volunteers

     
  • Citizen Science: The importance of marine data

    29 July 2019

    Citizen Science: The importance of marine data

    Shoresearch, our volunteer citizen science project for recording and monitoring on the intertidal zone of our coastline.

     
  • National Marine Week 2019

    26 July 2019

    National Marine Week 2019

    National Marine Week is our annual celebration of the sea and the amazing wildlife that lives there.

     
  • Donation from local co-operative to help protect sealife

    16 July 2019

    Donation from local co-operative to help protect sealife

    Sussex, Hampshire & Isle of Wight​ and Dorset ​Wildlife Trusts are saying a big thank you to a regional co-operative - Southern Co-op - after a generous donation will help protect our local sealife.

     
  • Enough fish in the sea?

    17 June 2019

    Enough fish in the sea?

    The breeding terns in Rye Bay have been struggling to maintain their breeding populations, and it’s seems to be getting worse.

     

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