Tag: Marine Conservation Society

Great British Beach Clean on Sunday

Date & time:  Sunday, 22 September 2019 – 11:30am – 2:00pm
Meeting location:  Granton Harbour breakwater under the flags
Additional information:

For the third year in a row, we’re joining the national Marine Conservation Society for their ‘Great British Beach Clean’. We’re also celebrating the things we’ve tried to do over the year, and that we want to make sure happen.

The Wild Ones and Wardie Bay Beachwatch have applied to SEPA for Bathing Water Quality Monitoring at Wardie Bay. We want the sea to be healthy to swim in, and our environment to be as protected as it can be.

We are working with landowners and the Angling Megastore to provide fishing litter and general waste bins and signage on the Eastern Breakwater, to make sure our places are properly looked after, and to ask people to help sustain it.

Wardie Bay Beachwatch represents the hopes we have for our wider environment. If we all act on a local level and take that with us into whatever we do, and ask others to do the same, we can help.

Please join us!

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Sunday 22 September, 11:30 – 14:00

Please come and encourage friends and family to come along too.
Gloves and litter picking equipment are provided.
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Please also visit our twitter page @wardiebaybeach for regular tweets or find the event on facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/483972618831239/

Write to Karen at wardiebaybeachwatch@gmail.com for further information.

Looking forward to seeing you!

Great British Beach Clean at Wardie Bay

For the third year in a row, we’re joining the national Marine Conservation Society for their ‘Great British Beach Clean’. We’re also celebrating the things we’ve tried to do over the year, and that we want to make sure happen (writes KAREN BATES).

The Wild Ones and Wardie Bay Beachwatch have applied to Scottish Environment Protection Agency (SEPA) for Bathing Water Quality Monitoring at Wardie Bay. We want the sea to be healthy to swim in, and our environment to be as protected as it can be.

We are working with landowners and the Edinburgh Angling Centre to provide fishing litter and general waste bins and signage on the Eastern Breakwater, to make sure our places are properly looked after, and to ask people to help sustain it.

Wardie Bay Beachwatch represents the hopes we have for our wider environment. If we all act on a local level and take that with us into whatever we do, and ask others to do the same, we can help.

Please join us!

Please also visit our twitter page @wardiebaybeach for regular tweets or find the event on the MCS website, register and sign up there! https://www.mcsuk.org/beachwatch/beach/wardie-bay-beach/event/2019-09-22

Write to Karen at wardiebaybeachwatch@gmail.com for further information.

Looking forward to seeing you!

Can you believe it? Olympic find during beach cleanup

Volunteer beach cleaners collected over 400 items of rubbish at the Marine Conservation Society’s spring beach clean and litter survey at Cramond beach on April 6th – and among them was a 31 year old Coke can advertising the 1988 Olympics. Continue reading Can you believe it? Olympic find during beach cleanup

World leading microbeads ban comes into force today

UK leads the way in tackling the scourge of marine pollution

A ban on the sale of products containing microbeads has come into force today as part of the Westminster Government’s world-leading efforts to prevent these harmful pieces of plastic entering the marine environment. Continue reading World leading microbeads ban comes into force today

Today’s Wardie Bay Beachwatch event CANCELLED

Event rescheduled for next Saturday

Due to a terrible weather forecast, we have had to POSTPONE today’s event as we can’t record our important message in wind & rain (writes KAREN BATES).

Join us next Saturday at 12:00 for our @mcsuk beachclean followed by SOS!!!

Sign up fresh here: https://www.mcsuk.org/…/b…/wardie-bay-beach/event/2018-06-16 or here: https://www.facebook.com/events/653386118339741/

Wardie Bay Beachwatch SOS! Join us! •••−−−••• 10am, Saturday 16 June

Our next Wardie Bay Beachwatch, providing citizen science data to Marine Conservation Society, will be preceded by a mass participation SOS citizen sculpture, to be represented at the Edinburgh Shoreline exhibition at Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh, 23 July to 23 September.

The day also celebrates Friend’s of the Earth Scotland’s Pop Up Parks.

We want Wardie Bay to be the beautiful, thriving greenspace it deserves to be. So, please travel by bike, bus or car-share, bring hearty zero-waste picnic food, and let’s have a fabulous community garden party!
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Saturday 16 June
10:00am  prompt!

We’ll create the SOS first, so if you want to stay for the MCS Beachwatch survey and beach clean, join us from 12:30 – 15:00.
Sign Up!

Wardie Bay Beachwatch cancelled

This Saturday’s event cancelled … rescheduled for Saturday 10 March

Please note & help spread the word that our next Marine Conservation Society Wardie Bay Beachwatch has had to be postponed. A beach survey would not be fun or productive with the snow forecast for Saturday 3rd. 🌨❄

This is the 1st day of meteorological Spring! 🌬

We will enjoy the day next Saturday #climatechange #behaviourchangeSea Champions Scotland

Seasons greetings from Wardie Bay Beachwatch

I am extremely grateful to all of you who came to Wardie Bay this year to help clear it up for the sake of our local creatures & neighbours but also to contribute to the crucial MCS data which we know to be helping the case against marine litter at policy level (writes KAREN BATES). 

Continue reading Seasons greetings from Wardie Bay Beachwatch

Beach litter rises 6% around Scottish coasts in just a year, report reveals

With food and drinks litter accounting for up to 20% of all rubbish found on beaches, the UK’s leading marine charity has launched an appeal to the Scottish Government and others in UK calling for urgent action. The Marine Conservation Society says levies on disposables are needed NOW. Continue reading Beach litter rises 6% around Scottish coasts in just a year, report reveals