Working together towards a sustainable Solway Firth
On Friday 30 August, Solway Firth Partnership (SFP) will visit three locations along the Solway Cumbrian Coast on a Red Routemaster Bus to talk to people about their coast and sea. SFP staff will be on the Big Red Bus to welcome visitors on board to learn more about marine planning in the Solway and… Read more »
The celebration of Scotland’s wild, native oysters is back for its third year and the programme is guaranteed to be bursting with fun, festivities and flavour! Marking the start of the native oyster harvesting season, Stranraer Development Trust is bringing top chefs, inspiring speakers, amazing entertainers and some of the world’s leading oyster experts together… Read more »
Join staff from Historic Environment Scotland, SNH and WWT on Friday 16 August from 7.30pm to 10.00pm for a special evening guided walk around the grounds of Caerlaverock Castle and the National Nature Reserve. You will look out for all sorts of nocturnal wildlife – come along for chance to look for moths, badgers and bats… Read more »
DUMFRIES AND GALLOWAY COUNCIL HARBOURS NOTICE TO MARINERS – URR NAVIGATION MARKERS NtM No DGC0006 of 2019 – 29th July 2019 Mariners are advised that the lateral channel markers deployed by the River Urr Navigation Trust, at the entrance to the Kippford channel, are no longer owned or maintained by any party. As such, the buoys… Read more »
West Cumbria Rivers Trust Summer Newsletter is out now. Read about:- – the £3.4 million awarded for river improvement projects in West Cumbria – how they’re working with Highways England and the Environment Agency to help reduce flood risk in Portinscale and Braithwaite – the results of their latest annual fish survey in the Derwent… Read more »
Every five years, the AONB team review and produce a management plan for the Solway Coast Area Of Outstanding Natural Beauty. The time has now come to prepare for the next plan which starts in 2020. What do you think should be the priorities for the Solway and its landscape? If you haven’t already, please… Read more »
Meet at RSPB Campfield Reserve on Thursday 11 July from 10.00am to 3.00pm This week the Solway Coast AONB Volunteer Group are carrying out a number of items of maintenance on the Clay Dabbin at RSPB Campfield: – Cleaning and painting the interior display boards – Chipping of the render on one of the exterior… Read more »
A new Chair for Clyde Marine Planning Partnership and Clyde 2020 Steering Group is sought. The tasks required as Chair are as follows: – Chair the CMPP quarterly Members’ meetings and annual general meetings and the Clyde 2020 meetings. Chair CMPP Board meetings as required. [Estimated up to 8 meetings per year]. – Lead… Read more »
Marine Conservation Society launches its annual Plastic Challenge on 1 July. 9,000 people took up the challenge in 2018 – to try and live as single-use plastic free as possible for some or all of the month of July. We use single-use plastics for just about everything, from cleaning our teeth and showering, to buying… Read more »
European smelt (Osmerus eperlanus) is a fish species that inhabits near shore coastal and estuarine waters and migrates up river to spawn. Historically, smelt were an abundant shoaling fish characteristic of many UK estuaries with strong cultural connections to coastal and estuarine communities. Archaeological evidence of smelt bones at Roman encampments has been found and… Read more »