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MCS and ASH Scotland have written to the Cabinet Secretary for Environment, Climate Change and Land Reform, Roseanna Cunningham MSP, telling her that cigarette filters must not be left out of Scotland’s plastics debate any longer.
British womenswear retailer, Mint Velvet, has chosen MCS as one of its charities to support. The collaboration will focus on reducing single-use plastic in the retailers online supply chain. Mint Velvet have launched an exclusive jewellery piece to mark the partnership with 100% of the profits from the sale being donated to the charity.
MCS has joined ClientEarth and WWF in calling on UK governments to introduce emergency measures to secure the future of North Sea cod. The call comes after marine scientists say species numbers are at dangerously low levels, putting the future of the fishery in doubt.
MCS is one of a number of NGO’s calling on the European Commission to challenge the Netherlands, the UK and Germany over a proposed management plan for the Dogger Bank. The NGOs are challenging the “incomprehensible” proposal to allow illegal fishing activities in the North Sea nature reserve.
Now that Environment Secretary, Michael Gove, has been eliminated from the Conservative leadership contest, MCS is asking him to focus urgently on reversing what we believe is an unlawful move by the government.
Beachcombers from Cornwall to Orkney have been picking up hundreds of pairs of unworn trainers and flip flops after a container ship lost some of its cargo in stormy seas.
Calum Duncan assesses Scotland’s progress towards the UN Sustainable Development Goals for the marine environment.
Royal Ballet dancer Fernando Montaño explains how his passion for the sea has inspired him to raise awareness for plastic pollution, in preparation for an impactful performance on 18th July, at the Royal Academy of Music.
Forty-one new Marine Conservation Zones (MCZs) are to be established in seas around the English and Northern Irish coast. Good news for marine wildlife – but more work and political will is needed.
The Turks and Caicos Islands (TCI) is a UK Overseas Territory (UKOT) lying in the northern Caribbean, where hunting sea turtles has been a tradition for centuries. Concerned about the declining turtle nesting populations, the TCI Government invited MCS to start the TCI Turtle Project in 2008.
To mark Mental Health Awareness week, MCS Ocean Ambassador and Paralympic Gold Medalist Susie Rodgers MBE, talks to us about what the sea means to her and how her connection to the ocean has helped her through some of the toughest times in her life.
The BBC’s Blue Planet Live (BBC1 Sunday 24th March 8pm) is an ambitious week of programming looking at all aspects of our oceans and the work being done by scientists worldwide, to secure the future of some of our most iconic marine creatures. We look back at some of the breath-taking highlights of the first programme.
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.
The CEO of the UK’s leading marine conservation charity, the Marine Conservation Society (MCS), has urged Michael Gove to follow the example set by Scotland today in designing an ambitious all-inclusive money-back recycling system for bottles and cans.
Norfolk’s Marine Conservation Zone has been brought to life with salty tales and beach trips for a nearby primary school. As part of the MCS led Agents of Change project, fishermen visited the school, whilst the pupils carried out beach cleaning and lug worm digging - all within a stones throw of Europe’s most extensive chalk reef.
MCS and ASH Scotland have written to the Cabinet Secretary for Environment, Climate Change and Land Reform, Roseanna Cunningham MSP, telling her that cigarette filters must not be left out of Scotland’s plastics debate any longer.
British womenswear retailer, Mint Velvet, has chosen MCS as one of its charities to support. The collaboration will focus on reducing single-use plastic in the retailers online supply chain. Mint Velvet have launched an exclusive jewellery piece to mark the partnership with 100% of the profits from the sale being donated to the charity.
Calum Duncan assesses Scotland’s progress towards the UN Sustainable Development Goals for the marine environment.
MCS has joined ClientEarth and WWF in calling on UK governments to introduce emergency measures to secure the future of North Sea cod. The call comes after marine scientists say species numbers are at dangerously low levels, putting the future of the fishery in doubt.
MCS is one of a number of NGO’s calling on the European Commission to challenge the Netherlands, the UK and Germany over a proposed management plan for the Dogger Bank. The NGOs are challenging the “incomprehensible” proposal to allow illegal fishing activities in the North Sea nature reserve.
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