Jean-Luc Solandt is a marine biologist struggling to get out of a policy expert. He worked on coral reef ecology for 15 years, providing diving survey data for the creation of Marine Protected Areas. He’s been working in the UK at the Marine Conservation Society for over 15 years on developing networks of MPAs, making…
Category: MARINE PROTECTION
Important new seabird data from 5-year GPS study
Over a 5-year period, 1300 seabirds of four species (Shag, Kittiwake, Razorbill and Guillemot) were tracked to see where they went when foraging from their breeding colonies. These data were then applied to all breeding colonies around the UK to produce predictive maps of marine use by these four species. these predictive maps could be…
World Oceans Day
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Tomorrow is UK general election day and World Oceans Day. Spare a thought for Jeremy and Theresa. Well done Oceana EU for these pertinent and witty videos.
Guest blog – We forgot to tell the fish by Carrie Hume
Carrie Hume is Director of Conservation & Campaigns at the Marine Conservation Society. She grew up in the seaside town of Lowestoft, with a long family legacy of entrepreneurial fisherman, who were ultimately doomed by the early-twentieth century collapse in the local fishing industry. Currently land locked in Herefordshire, a committed environmentalist, she is coming…
Guest blog – Protecting the knackered by Jean-Luc Solandt
Jean-Luc Solandt is a marine biologist struggling to get out of a policy expert. He worked on coral reef ecology for 15 years, providing diving survey data for the creation of Marine Protected Areas. He’s been working in the UK at the Marine Conservation Society for over 13 years on developing networks of MPAs, making…
Underwater
Today the SWLA exhibition opens at The Mall Galleries – an annual treat where the beauties of nature are brought in to the centre of London. I had a look around yesterday evening at a very enjoyable SWLA/BTO event. Artist Chris Rose got a taste for sub-marine adventure after winning The Wildlife Trusts’/SWLA’s Undersea Art…
It’s not really about money is it?
The deadline for responses to the consultation about the South Georgia and South Sandwich Islands is 31 July – Friday. Please respond as every response will count – as there won’t be very many. Something along these lines would be useful, I believe: Thank you for the opportunity to comment on…
South Georgia and South Sandwich Islands consultation launched
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It’s good to see that yesterday a consultation was launched on the South Georgia and South Sandwich Island Strategy 2016-2020 to ‘stakeholders and interested parties’. I responded to an earlier consultation on the seas around South Georgia and I will be reading this strategy closely. There are no permanent or indigenous inhabitants of the land…
Politicians all at sea
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Let’s start at home – for we English anyway. On Friday, a consultation closes on whether the government should go ahead with a further tranche of designation of Marine Conservation Zones. And the answer is ‘they should’. The UK Marine and Coastal Planning Act is five and a half years old. Under its provisions Marine …
Pitcairn marine protected area announced
I’m ‘on the road’ so this blog is very short, but I was delighted to hear that hidden in the budget documentation was the announcement that there is to be a marine protected area around the Pitcairn Islands. This is a subject that this blog has promoted over the years (see here, here, here, here, here,…