The Marine Conservation Society is the UK’s leading marine charity. We work to ensure our seas are healthy, pollution free and protected.
Our seas are under immense pressure: too many fish are being taken out, too much rubbish is being thrown in and too little is being done to protect our precious wildlife. Our vision is for seas full of life where nature flourishes and people thrive.
An area over 9 times the size of Wales is now in marine protected areas in the UK, but less than 1% is considered by MCS scientists to be well managed
21.7 million tonnes of wild caught fish are not for people to eat; almost 75% of this is to feed farmed fish
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A bacterial infection that kills coral has been sweeping through the Turks and Caicos Islands (TCI), a UK Overseas Territory, where MCS has been carrying out projects for many years.
We’re delighted to welcome Amanda Nobbs as our new chair of Trustees. Concern for the environment has been a strong theme running through Amanda’s career, which has straddled the charity, public and private sectors. Now she’s focused on helping us ensure our overexploited ocean can recover.
Yesterday, after over five years of campaigning alongside all our supporters and partners, the Scottish Parliament voted through the final piece of legislation needed to put Scotland’s Deposit Return Scheme (DRS) into place.
Royal Ballet dancer, Fernando Montano, joins MCS as our newest Ocean Ambassador. Our Ocean Ambassadors are passionate about our marine environment and work alongside us to help the ocean be a better place for both wildlife and for people.
On Sunday 26th April, the 40th London Marathon was set to raise millions of pounds for charities, including for the Marine Conservation Society. As lockdown continues and Coronavirus causes mass gathering events to be cancelled, the UK’s mass participation event industry has come together to create the 2.6 Challenge to save the UK’s charities.
As part of the Our Blue Heart project we’ve been working on over the last two years, we looked to explore the wellbeing benefits of spending time by the coast and how a deeper connection to the ocean effects our mental and physical health. It was clear that spending time on the coast and by the sea has a positive impact on our wellbeing.
The new Fisheries Bill – working its way through UK parliament right now – gives the UK an amazing opportunity to develop world-leading fisheries management with sustainability at its heart and deliver ocean-friendly seafood for consumers to enjoy.
Alice Watson, Public Affairs Assistant at the Marine Conservation Society, discusses the Fisheries Bill and its key provisions.
New research from the University of Manchester has found that tiny plastic fibres, microfibres, are a big contribution to ocean plastic pollution.
On Sunday thousands of people all across the UK joined the 2.6 Challenge. Anne Thwaites is writing a story for the sea every day for 26 days from Sunday the 26th of April.
Now that we’ve been stuck inside for a little while, many of us are starting to miss the natural world. While it isn’t quite the same as the real thing, we’ve been working hard to find new ways to bring the #OceanIndoors.
As well as 2020 being the twentieth birthday of MCS in Scotland, it’s also the year designated by VisitScotland as the country’s Year of Coasts and Waters.
The Marine Conservation Society is seeking public’s support to safeguard seagrass and fight ocean warming
The UK’s leading marine charity, the Marine Conservation Society (MCS), is looking for thousands of volunteers to clean up the nation’s beaches during this year’s Great British Beach Clean event (20th -23rd September).
MCS welcomes the Environment Secretary’s decision to launch an independent review to consider whether Highly Protected Marine Areas (HPMAs) would add further protections to the seas around England and Northern Ireland.
The Marine Conservation Society welcomes today’s announcement by the government of the creation of 41 new Marine Conservation Zones (MCZs), but warns that proper investment in their management and monitoring must be made if they are to benefit both people and wildlife.
Royal Ballet soloist Fernando Montano is taking a step in a new direction, raising awareness of ocean pollution by staging an event at the Royal Academy of Music in London in July.
The Marine Conservation Society has warned Welsh Local Authorities and elements within government that they will be failing young people if they refuse to back a money-back recycling system which encourages consumers to return their empty glass and plastic bottles and cans.
A bacterial infection that kills coral has been sweeping through the Turks and Caicos Islands (TCI), a UK Overseas Territory, where MCS has been carrying out projects for many years.
We’re delighted to welcome Amanda Nobbs as our new chair of Trustees. Concern for the environment has been a strong theme running through Amanda’s career, which has straddled the charity, public and private sectors. Now she’s focused on helping us ensure our overexploited ocean can recover.
The new Fisheries Bill – working its way through UK parliament right now – gives the UK an amazing opportunity to develop world-leading fisheries management with sustainability at its heart and deliver ocean-friendly seafood for consumers to enjoy.
Yesterday, after over five years of campaigning alongside all our supporters and partners, the Scottish Parliament voted through the final piece of legislation needed to put Scotland’s Deposit Return Scheme (DRS) into place.
Royal Ballet dancer, Fernando Montano, joins MCS as our newest Ocean Ambassador. Our Ocean Ambassadors are passionate about our marine environment and work alongside us to help the ocean be a better place for both wildlife and for people.
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