Blake Lee-Harwood is a UK-based environmental campaigner who has spent long periods working with NGOs like Greenpeace, Friends of the Earth and RSPB as well as stints as a government advisor and consultant to industry. He is passionate about wildlife, and particularly the marine environment, and spends his non-working hours either mucking about with boats…
Category: MARINE PROTECTION
Press release – #SaveSevernsFish
Last chance to save the fish in the Severn as the Environment Agency, planning Inspectorate and Marine Management Organisation deliberates a landmark decision. This crucial decision could see thousands of fish, including cod, sprat, salmon, and whiting, drawn to their deaths each day as they are sucked into double-decker sized water-cooling systems of the new…
Press release – the Sustainable Fisheries Partnership and others
Top UK Seafood Products May Pose Risks to Sharks, Seabirds, Marine Mammals and Sea Turtles ASDA first major retailer to assess impacts of its seafood business on ocean wildlife London – An independent report released today assesses the risks to ocean wildlife from incidental capture in the fisheries that supply seafood to UK supermarket chain…
Guest blog – Start of the Green Recovery? by Kristi Foster
Kristi Foster is Head of Engagement for Conservation Careers, a major careers advice centre for conservationists – helping over 200,000 conservationists across the globe achieve career success. Conservation Careers believes that all wildlife is beautiful and that it deserves great conservationists working to protect it. Conservation Jobs and COVID-19 | Start of the Green Recovery?…
RSPB press release – Storm Petrels’ movements
New research has pioneered the use of GPS tags on the UK’s tiniest seabird, the Storm Petrel. For the first time several years of data have been collected on the little birds’ movements at sea. Researchers discovered they regularly travelled up to 300 kilometres to feed in the stormy waters off Shetland. The Storm Petrel…
Press release – Rewilding Britain
New network to spearhead rapid rewilding across Britain A new project spearheading rapid and massively upscaled rewilding will be launched by Rewilding Britain later this year, to tackle the nature and climate emergencies, and help boost green recovery from the Covid-19 crisis. With nature faring worse in the UK than in most other countries, and…
Guest blog – Re-connecting with Rock Pools by Heather Buttivant
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Heather Buttivant is a writer, educator and marine conservationist based in Looe, Cornwall. She specialises in introducing people to the magic of the rock pools. Her first book, Rock Pool: extraordinary encounters between the tides, is available from bookshops and online (and is reviewed here) and her website was named BBC Wildlife Magazine’s Blog of…
Press release – Hebridean Whale and Dolphin Trust
Public urged to report whale and dolphin sightings in Hebrides The Hebridean Whale and Dolphin Trust is calling on members of the public to record their at-sea excursions and sightings of whales, dolphins, porpoises and endangered basking sharks off Scotland’s west coast to boost monitoring efforts and strengthen understanding of the coronavirus lockdown’s impact on…
Benyon review on Highly Protected Marine Areas
This review, which is quite important, was published on World Ocean Day two weeks ago. It gained a lot of acclaim at the time and this was pretty well-deserved. The group (which I said at the time it was set up, back in July 2019, looked like a good one), chaired by former Environment minister…
Press release – 25,000 Green Jobs from RSPB for Wildlife Link
Twenty-five thousand jobs could be created through government investment in a green recovery Investment in nature recovery could provide a major boost in employment in England and help create a more resilient economy as part of a green economic recovery from Covid-19 according to new figures put together by conservation groups. In addition, it would…