Archive of: Marine

  • 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.

     
  • New wave of protection for the sea announced today

    30 May 2019

    New wave of protection for the sea announced today

    Today marks a huge landmark in UK marine conservation as 39 (41) new Marine Conservation Zones (MCZs) are designated in the waters around England – three of which are in our local Sussex Seas!

     
  • Help marine wildlife with your Tesco 'Bags-of-Help' blue token

    30 April 2019

    Help marine wildlife with your Tesco 'Bags-of-Help' blue token

    We are delighted that, between May 1 and the end of June, Tesco customers can support two key Sussex Wildlife Trust marine programmes, every time they shop.

     
  • Sussex by the Sea wins National Lottery Heritage Fund support

    19 February 2019

    Sussex by the Sea wins National Lottery Heritage Fund support

    Sussex Wildlife Trust has been awarded £59,000 towards an exciting new partnership project to protect and celebrate the sea

     
  • Talking a load of rubbish!

    04 January 2019

    Talking a load of rubbish!

    Sarah Ward talks about a year of beach cleans, the importance of that for marine conservation, and is grateful for the support of Sussex Wildlife Trust’s fantastic volunteers

     
  • Marine Review of the Year

    03 January 2019

    Marine Review of the Year

    ​Watch Sarah Ward, the Living Seas Officer at Sussex Wildlife Trust, talks to BBC Breakfast talking about the The Wildlife Trusts’ Marine Review of the year,

     
  • A Cetacean Summer

    30 December 2018

    A Cetacean Summer

    It’s always exciting to see whales, dolphins and porpoises, and they are around year-round, but this summer seems to have been a bit of a ‘bumper’ year for sightings!