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As the Making the Most of the Coast project is coming to an end we are delighted to look back at two years of learning, engagement and new opportunities.
Summing up the wide range of community involvement and awareness raising activities promoted by the Making the Most of the Coast project, Nic Coombey, Coastal Ranger, is putting together a final project review. This review will be full of pretty images and present the key achievements of the last two years.
Along with a number of easy-to-use guides to the Solway’s beaches, shells and wildflowers, the Making the Most of the Coast project has engaged over 2,500 people in volunteering, wildlife recording and art work. Highlighting the importance of partnership, Making the Most of the Coast worked with over 30 groups, organisations and businesses across Dumfries and Galloway.
The review will be published by the end of this month and available for you to look through and appreciate the variety, beauty and potential of our Coastline. Keep checking out website for further information.
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Penalty - awareness about marine plastic pollution
Nic Coombey, Coastal Ranger with Solway Firth Partnership’s Making the Most of the Coast project, collected 228 footballs on beaches in Dumfries and Galloway. His efforts were featured in one of four images by photographer Mandy Barker called ‘One Person’.
Inspired by the World Cup in Brazil, the artist used social media to send a request for footballs cast up on beaches round the world. Following her call, nearly 90 people from 41 different countries and islands sent her 769 footballs.
Her series of images called ‘Penalty’ refer to the penalty we are all paying for the problem of plastic pollution which is a major risk to the diversity of life in our oceans. Using washed up plastic debris to create beautiful images, Mandy aims to raise awareness of the need to keep our seas and oceans clean.
To find out more about Mandy and her work, visit her website.
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Solway Wildflower Guide
Following Making the Most of the Coast’s recent publication ‘A Beachcomber’s Guide for Solway Shells’, a Wildflower guide of a similar format is now in the pipeline.
After the great success of the Shell Guide, which “has been very popular with everyone from children to grand-parents”, as Nic Coombey put it, the Wildflower Guide will be incredibly useful for anyone who has ever wanted to know more about the hidden gems of our beaches, marshes and cliffs.
The guide features 16 common flowers found on the Solway from Common Glasswort on the mud flats to Thrift clinging to the cliffs. It includes stunning images and fascinating facts as well as easy-to-use key characteristics that help identification.
The free publication will be available at selected outlets across Dumfries and Galloway or can be requested from Solway Firth Partnership.
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