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Merry Christmas to all our supporters near and far! The biggest thank you ever to all our amazing supporters and partner organisations for their huge seal related efforts throughout 2016. For Cornwall Seal Group Research Trust, Christmas came early this year. We had the best two early presents ever! The first came just…
Ghost Gear Report 2015/16 by CSGRT funded by World Animal Protection What is Ghost Gear? Ghost gear is any discarded, lost, or abandoned fishing gear in the marine environment. It is one of the biggest threats to our sea life. Ghost fishing gear affects a range of marine life in Cornwall, including grey seals a species…
Our 22nd systematic boat survey from St Agnes to Trevose (STAPIP) was heavily oversubscribed yesterday! With light winds, calm seas and sunny spells forecast we were all set to have a great day. As usual we recorded everything….marine life and human activity (outside of built up areas) and all our surveyors were kept rather busy. Soon…
Thanks to everyone who shared our post yesterday about the young female seal who was badly entangled in lost or storm damaged trawl net. British Divers Marine Life Rescue (BDMLR) received a call (via the RSPCA) last night to say that a seal matching the nettie’s description was hauled out on the mainland beach at…
One of the highlights in the SW marine conservation calendar year is the SW Marine Ecosystem Conference held at the Plymouth Marine Laboratory. This event aims to promote networking across relevant organisations, summarise the previous year’s marine events and explore emerging research to inform the management of our precious SW marine ecosystems. Organised by Bob Earll, this year’s…
(written by Rebecca Hollely who has kindly given her permission for us to publish her blog post on our website.) Last year, University of Exeter Centre for Ecology and Conservation MSc. students set up a really cool group called The Natural Selection, where they interviewed university bioscience researchers about their recent work and made it…
