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Following Sue’s recent visit to Nexus at Camborne Science and International Academy, CSGRT received an email containing a fantastic poem written by one of their Year 8 students, Evie. We think it is very inspiring and thought provoking! Please do read right to the bottom! The only way is up Our marine life is a…
We are delighted to announce our very first business supporter and welcome Aspects Holidays to our team! This is what Jenna Ali, Aspects Holidays Marketing Assistant says about their support decision: “Aspects Holidays is proud to be supporting the Cornwall Seal Group Research Trust. We have recently decided to work with Cornwall Seal Group Research Trust in a…
Our work works! Help seals promote your tourist business across the SW and beyond! We love grey seals – they are amazingly beautiful and the SW’s iconic, globally rare speciality species. By identifying the unique fur patterns of each individual seal, we can monitor their health and activities, checking that they can continue to thrive…
Ben Watkins talks to us about his experience of creating and producing ‘Coastal’: I first got involved with documenting grey seal conservation during my final year project at Falmouth University studying Marine & Natural History Photography. In the previous term I had completed another documentary photo story on the conservation of loggerhead turtles on the…
This week our Rangers (Marion, Katie, Emily, Sarah and Stacey) and Trustee team (Sue and Kate) spent a day training alongside Natural England team member Kate S, Polzeath Marine Conservation Group members Cathy and Annie and Tina who runs Our Only World charity. Generously hosted by Tina in Polzeath, we all enjoyed the inspirational floor…
At CSGRT, we have won our second prestigious award in two weeks. We are genuinely gobsmacked at this incredible achievement. The Cornwall Sustainability Awards recognise leaders proactively managing and growing the natural environment and CSGRT won the Individual category.
It was an honour for CSGRT trustees (Sue, Dan and Kate) and Ranger (Marion –…
I am studying a BSc at Cornwall College Newquay in Applied Zoology and Conservation. I previously had taken my A Levels after I finished school, however I didn’t truly discover my passion until a few years later, when I decided I wanted to work in conservation, so I went back to college to study an…
Cornwall Volunteer Awards Each year Volunteer Cornwall’s annual awards recognise the efforts and achievements of individual volunteering within our community, celebrating the contribution that local people make. This year Tina Robinson (our Ghost Gear data analyst) nominated us for the Environmental Award (sponsored by Cornwall Wildlife Trust CWT).
Marion (CSGRT Amazement and…
CSGRT and IoSWT Photo ID Partnership begins This week we were delighted to spend a few short days over in the beautiful Isles of Scilly with the Wildlife Trust (IoSWT) team sharing expertise on grey seal photo ID. As every seal has its own different fur pattern, so each animal can be recognised individually for…
The legend that is Bob Earll has finally committed his huge body of Marine Conservation knowledge to print. His marine experience spans 40 years, so he has witnessed marine research and conservation grow from a handful of people (when he worked with the Marine Conservation Society in 1978) to a mainstream discipline involving governments, charities,…
At last rescue team frees entangled seal after four-month operation. Back on 17th May 2018, Cornwall Seal Group Research Trust (CSGRT) surveyors sighted a juvenile male grey seal in West Cornwall that was entangled around the neck with green fishing net and became known as ‘Lucky Star’ in the hope he would be able to…
The 2018/19 pupping season has started! The first grey seal pup of the 2018/19 season was reported on Samson around 20/08/18. At the time of writing, this sighting was not confrmed as photos are essential to distinguish between pale juveniles during their first annual moult and maternally dependent pups under three weeks old whose longer…