🍾📢 GOOD NEWS KLAXON! Greece announces ban on destructive bottom trawling in marine protected areas 👏👏👏

theguardian.com/environment/20…

Whatever action you can take as an individual, do it. Use your vote & use it wisely (increasingly harder these days, but don’t waste it). Support campaigns like #StopRosebank, get involved if you have capacity. Shout. Scream.

We aren’t the ones in power, but we’re not powerless.

#HappyMonday ! This is an exciting week for the Sea Scotland team, with our Making Waves online event on Wednesday🥳.

Making Waves events are now sold out, but you can join the main #SeaScot24 conference on the 3rd and 4th of June! 👉bit.ly/3T15r2e

📢 Locals call for urgent protection of newly-confirmed herring spawning grounds off Wester Ross

'we've got a 50 mile stretch of coastline that has been identified as important herring spawning grounds with zero conservation or protection in place' Scottish Government Scot Gov Marine

🍫🍟🍬🧃Crisp packets, juice cartons, sweet wrappers... all these items are in scope for packaging reform to ensure the polluter pays to help deal with litter and waste. Help us ensure this happens, complete a short survey this week👉 keepscotlandbeautiful.org/springclean

🌊 Save the date!🌊

We're getting young people across Scotland together to celebrate this years World Ocean Day on Saturday 8th June

Mark it in your calendars and keep your eyes peeled for sign up announcements and programme details coming soon...

#worldoceanday #youthforseas

A brilliant FREE online event about campaigning, and I'll be sharing some of the roadmap from the #BanDisposableVapes campaign, and some updates and where we're going next!

📅 Tues April 16th 7pm

hiclimatehub.co.uk/event-listing/…

📢NEW REPORT📢

.Scottish Government must do more to engage the public on climate change and Scotland's climate change targets.

This is the view of 23 members of the public who took part in our 'People's Panel'.

Release - ow.ly/srPi50RcVnr
Report - ow.ly/rRI350RcSMN

Have you got your ticket yet? 🧐 Don't miss out! 👇

Adult Fish Aren't Truly 'Protected' in Many Marine Protected Areas

It’s time for Marine Protected Areas to be truly protected, particularly from the one industry specifically designed to kill marine life: Industrial Fishing

⁦⁦Oceana UK⁩
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Temperatures in Scotland are rising, a clear sign our climate is changing.

Extreme heat can be deadly. It's a risk to vital infrastructure such as roads, fresh water, hospitals + schools.

Tell us how we should prepare for the impacts of climate change bit.ly/3HGjtRK

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Get planning your #SeaScot24 experience by having a look over the programme, and buying tickets at the link below! 🌊

Some really important lessons on cultivating resilience and joy through collective care in our groups.

Vital for the long term strength and success of our movements! Thanks #StopRosebank for the training!

More tips on this here if you missed it:
tippingpointuk.org/resources/

Join Our Team!📢
We’re looking for an individual who is passionate about sustainability & has experience of developing an organisational #netzero plan to join as our Sustainability & Assets Officer.
📅 Apply by 11 April.

Find out more ↙️
seabird.org/vacancies/sust…
#HeritageFund

What a national disgrace
Industry attempts to pass off caged farmed salmon as ' #ScottishSalmon ' have been rubber stamped by Defra UK. This must be challenged. We can't lose hope of recovering wild salmon populations to former abundance. Farmed ≠ Wild thenational.scot/news/24231997.…

🎉 Bottom trawling has been banned in 3 sites off the Isle of Man!

'A significant step forward for the local fishing industry and food policies.' And, of course, our marine wildlife and ocean habitats 🙌🪸🦞🦑🦈🐬

bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

📢Next in our webinar series for young people we'll hear about the world of Scottish politics and policymalking firsthand from Claudia Beamish Claudia Beamish - a fomer Labout MSP and now Chair of the Board for YSCS and! Register for free tickets 👉bit.ly/yscs-webinar-s…

Great news! Thanks to the wonderful community of Orkney and Shetland and northeast Scotland, we have been able to confirm that Risso's dolphins are present on our shores throughout the year.

We analysed 1,867 sighting records, some dating back to 1933, and found that Risso's…

In the latest episode of our new podcast 'This is How AyeFeel' Katy J talks to Laura Young. In this episode they chat about coping with climate anxiety, activism, burnout - and mooncups too!

🎙Listen to the full episode wherever you get your podcasts!
young.scot/podcast