Marine | Sussex Wildlife Trust

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.

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.

26 January 2020

Glassworts

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

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.

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

23 December 2019

Merry Christmas from Sussex Seas

Here is some of our favourite festive-themed marine wildlife

10 December 2019

Oil on Sussex beaches

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

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.

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

02 October 2019

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