15 May 2023
In a new paper published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, a team of researchers documented 851 seabird restoration events that took place over the last 70 years (although most took place during the previous 10 years). These projects spanned 551 locations and targeted 138 seabird species. Forty-nine of these events used […]
08 Nov 2022
The UK government has announced £156,000 to protect England’s island seabird populations against the threat of invasive predators. This is one of the first instances globally of a central government providing funding to protect seabird islands against these specific threats, Defra has said. The UK’s islands such as Coquet Island and the Isles […]
13 Sep 2022
A new RSPB report finds that the UK can continue to generate renewables at sea while also strengthening efforts to protect nature, creating mutual benefits that help tackle the climate and ecological crises. As reported in Edie, BusinessGreen [paywall], The National, and the RSPB’s own press release: Powering Healthy Seas explores how planners and decision-makers can […]
06 Sep 2022
ECOWind is bringing together experts from science, policy and industry to understand how offshore wind affects ecosystems, and the species and habitats that make them, in order to reduce negative impacts on marine life while tackling climate change. From seven shortlisted projects, three have now been selected for funding. The projects will explore the effects […]
24 May 2022
Seabirds usually feed in areas that are rich in fish and so they frequently encounter commercial fishing boats. Being incidentally caught in the boats’ nets or hooks (“by-catch”) is a major threat to seabirds, and many end up drowning. The problem has also negative impacts on fishing activity; it is time-consuming and damages fishing gear. […]
19 Oct 2021
Spending a month on St Kilda during the summer, Connie Tremlett and Mark Bolton were tasked by Marine Scotland (funded by the European Maritime and Fisheries Fund) to deploy tiny GPS tracking devices on the Leaches Storm Petrel to give information on where the important feeding grounds are, and where the birds might interact with […]
10 Sep 2019
Leatherback turtle with an ocean robot camera – ‘One of our Cape Cod leatherback #turtles ingested 123 jellies, took 133 breaths & beat its flippers 1405 times in just 2 hours’ Click here to watch the video: pic.twitter.com/xOYkPpefTK What a young seabird coughed up … plastics Here’s a clip from the brilliant but painful to […]
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