Seagrass
Meadows of seagrass spread across the seabed, their dense green leaves sheltering a wealth of wildlife including our two native species of seahorse.
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Sugar kelp
Sugar kelp is the crinkly belt like kelp that can often be found in deep rockpools on the lower shore or washed up on the beach after rough seas.
Seagrass Restoration Volunteer
This link will open on the Cumbria Wildlife Trust website.
Be a part of efforts to restore seagrass meadows in Cumbria!
Evening Cruise on the Fleet Explorer
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Join us for an evening cruise on the Fleet Explorer to discover the fascinating wildlife of Chesil and the Fleet Lagoon.
Evening Cruise on the Fleet Explorer
This link will open on the Dorset Wildlife Trust website.
Join us for an evening cruise on the Fleet Explorer to discover the fascinating wildlife of Chesil and the Fleet Lagoon.
NWT Ponteland Group: Seaweeds
This link will open on the Northumberland Wildlife Trust website.
Local naturalist, Gavin Hardy, will be talking about this important but perhaps over-looked feature of our marine environment.
Birds of the Fleet cruise on the Fleet Explorer
This link will open on the Dorset Wildlife Trust website.
Join us for a guided birdwatching boat trip on the Fleet Explorer, where we will point out some of the species of birds that call Chesil and the Fleet Lagoon home.
Sea slugs, seaweeds and snorkel trails make headlines in The Wildlife Trusts’ 2024 marine review
Ordinary people find extraordinary ‘climate indicator’ species in UK waters
Wildlife Trust volunteers clock over 46,000 hours of surveys and beach cleans
Research highlights the…
Common eelgrass
This seagrass species is a kind of flowering plant that lives beneath the sea, providing an important habitat for many rare and wonderful species.
Kelp forests
Forests of kelp sway in shallow sunlit waters, offering shelter to a host of sea life from tiny worms to juvenile fish.
Celebrating Elke Mackenzie: Explorer, scientist and lichenologist, in honour of LGBTQ+ History Month
Finley Reynolds, Co-Chair of The Wildlife Trusts' Out for Nature network, explores the legacy of Elke Mackenzie—a trailblazing botanist and explorer whose lichenology work shaped natural…
Seaweed Pressing at Kimmeridge
This link will open on the Dorset Wildlife Trust website.
Come along to the Fine Foundation Wild Seas Centre to learn the Victorian art of seaweed pressing.