Citizen Science is one of the main activities of Moray Ocean Community and we are always keen to try new citizen science surveys – it’s a great way for learning…
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Coastal Communities Network Gathering 2024
Tuesday, October 29th, 2024During October, CCN’s most recent gathering took place, fittingly, by the sea on the Isle of Cumbrae. The network had been busy since we last met up at Gartmore in…
Programme for Government 2024-25: what it means for community-led marine conservation
Tuesday, September 10th, 2024by Sarah Doherty, Coastal Communities Network Coordinator Last week, the First Minister introduced the Programme for Government for 2024-2025, outlining the Scottish Government’s key priorities for the year ahead. While…
Zero Nets! Scotland’s coastal communities support calls for pause to fish farm expansion
Thursday, March 2nd, 2023By James Merrywether, Scottish Salmon Think-Tank This week the Scotsman reported on a call made by a cross-party group of MSPs (and MPs) for a pause to the expansion of…
Empowering grassroots efforts for a sustainable future
Tuesday, February 14th, 2023by Alan Munro, CCN Coordinator Biodiversity loss is a critical issue facing our planet. Like climate change, the extinction of species and the degradation of natural habitats pose an…
Seawilding: sowing the seeds for community-led marine restoration
Friday, June 24th, 2022by Kerri Whiteside, Community Support Specialist at Fauna & Flora International (FFI) Last weekend I visited the beautiful Craignish peninsula in Argyll to join Seawilding’s first ever ‘restoration training weekend’,…
Edinburgh Ocean Leaders exchange with CCN
Tuesday, May 17th, 2022In late March, during a week of particularly pleasant weather, members of the Coastal Communities Network (CCN) in the north western reaches of Scotland met up with an international group…
Restoration Forth: the seagrass search begins
Monday, April 18th, 2022Let me introduce myself. My name is Lyle Boyle and I was a member of CCN a few years ago when I served as a Marine Ranger with the Berwickshire…
Mapping the Forth coastline through art
Monday, March 21st, 2022This month Rebecca and I made it across to the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh to join CCN member Rosslyn Barr (of Edinburgh Shoreline) for a bespoke visit of the new…
Sowing the seeds of recovery: community-led marine restoration in Scotland
Monday, March 14th, 2022By Alan Munro Oysters being put in the loch by local community © Philip Price Once upon a time, Scotland’s inshore seas supported vast seagrass meadows rich in biodiversity and…