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Tuesday, August 28th, 2018
Kelp bed, Richard Shucksmith © SNH A proposal to mechanically dredge kelp forests off the coast of Scotland has led to an outcry from conservationists, who say it would...
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Wednesday, June 27th, 2018
This blog article from Untamed Science takes a look at the threats to aquatic plants, and restoration efforts underway to save Zostera marina, or eelgrass. For a little underwater plant,...
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Monday, June 11th, 2018
In Scotland we are lucky. Our beautiful nation is blessed with a wealth of productive coastal habitats that provision us with some of the best seafood on the planet. Our...
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Wednesday, May 23rd, 2018
Popular fish for eating such as cod and pollock are reliant on the existence of healthy seagrass meadows, research led by Swansea University has found. The meadows - areas of...
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Saturday, April 28th, 2018
The year was 1834, and the HMS Beagle was sailing through the Strait of Magellan near Tierra del Fuego, when Charles Darwin’s mind turned to giant kelp. “The number of...
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Thursday, February 22nd, 2018
What does the future hold for seagrass? Benjamin Jones considers the issues facing these valuable meadows in this BBC Earth Blue Planet 2 blog post. The savannahs of the seas...
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Tuesday, February 6th, 2018
It's slimy green fronds are something you'd usually try to avoid on a trip to the seaside. But now Scottish producers claim that the country's native seaweeds are going mainstream,...
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Thursday, January 11th, 2018
Richard Lilley is a marine ecologist, and director of the marine conservation charity Project Seagrass. In this guest blog for Green Economy Coalition, he gives his personal perspective on the conservation...
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Monday, December 11th, 2017
© Project Seagrass Urgent action is required to stem the loss of the world’s seagrass meadows, to protect their associated fisheries. Writing in the journal Fish & Fisheries, Dr Richard...
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Friday, November 24th, 2017
A recent blog at Save Scottish Seas looks at the value of Scottish seagrass meadows and how citizen science can help to help to discover the location and extent of...
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