Hey ocean lovers! 👋🏻🌊

🗓️Mark your calendars for our next Seaquest Sunday event next week (5th May).

We’ll be at the end of Pendennis Point car park from 11am - 1pm ready to spot some amazing wildlife with you! 🔭

Don’t miss out, join us for a fun few hours by the sea 🐋

What an amazing turnout! 210 people at the Seas of Change film night🙌Thanks so much 99p Films Social Cinema, Falmouth Marine Conservation & Princess Pavilion for showing our Fair Seas film Kingdom of Kerry. Fantastic to join community-led discussions on protecting our shared ocean📽️🍿🌊

Then Corncrake for an after-dinner snack 😉 After one arrived last week, we passed by the usual fields many times and never heard a peep. But finally last night we did hear him and his echo, both merrily singing away under a beautiful full moon

Fantastic news & well done Malcolm Noonan T.D. for creating Ireland's 1st Marine National Park 🌊🌳🇮🇪

More reason to manage our existing marine Natura 2000 network in a way that really delivers the conservation outcomes we want & need #OceanOptimism

Malin Head Donegal next 🙏🙏🙏

Joe has arrived in Europe! 🎉 He’s racing ahead & is in the Algarve in Portugal. 😎 He’s the first of our tagged Cuckoos to reach Europe! Who do you think will be next? Meanwhile Trent isn’t far behind & Sayaan & KP are catching up too!

Follow the race👉 bit.ly/cuckoo_project

New film coming soon... #BoneSharkIsland ! Excited about our upcoming short showcasing new whale shark research. Filmed in St Helena with expert Kenickie Andrews & the amazing St Helena National Trust team, generously supported by fsbi🎞️🦈🍿 #sthelena image credit Michelle Fletcher

Excited to share our film 'Fair Seas - The Kingdom of Kerry' is screening as part of 99p Films Social Cinema!🙌🎞️🍿Join us in Falmouth for films, food & chat April 28th Princess Pavilion with Falmouth Marine Conservation Tickets from 99p➡️ 99pfilms.com/events/seas-of…

If you missed our last newsletter, never fear! You can now find it along with our previous issue in glorious PDF format on our new newsletter archive on our website. Check it out for updates on our projects, memberships and more.
#watervoles #osprey
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I Love Ducks

We had such a fantastic time creating this new angel shark video with Irish Elasmobranch Group, such an amazing project making a real difference!🦈 True ocean optimism 🙌 Funded by Marine Institute & beautiful angel shark footage kindly provided by Jake Davies

We’re taking our #Motion4theOcean to the UN Ocean Decade Conference!

I’m so excited to be speaking about the Motion for the Ocean at the official event we’re hosting with UNESCO Ocean, ICM-CSIC & Maré de Ciência.

Open to registered participants: forms.office.com/Pages/Response…

T-minus 10 days until our satellite tags on tope sharks are due to pop off! 🦈Any guesses where these large females may have ventured to from the Wicklow Coastline in the last six months? 🤔

Presenting 20+ years of tracking data from the Falkland Islands!
A truly unique ecosystem home to globally significant marine predator populations 🦭🐧🪿
Fun 📽️ by Javed Riaz showcasing the flurry of activity over Patagonian Shelf.
#FalklandIslands #seabird #seal
Falkland Islands Gov

One for the dog lovers!🐕‍🦺🐦🎞️We loved making this short film about Conservation Detection Dogs with Dr Caroline Finlay exploring how dogs help research teams find & protect rare species. Catch the film & more info @ cddni.com Funded by Marine Institute #DogsOfTwitter #Conservation

🌊 New in SEABIRD 36 (Early Release) 🌊

Beth McKeague, Caroline Finlay & colleagues:
'Recommendations for the use of conservation detection dogs in #seabird research: a thematic analysis'

#SeabirdJournal

doi.org/10.61350/sbj.3…

📷: Jacob González-Solís

Check out the fantastic film created by Swimming Head Productions and funded by the Marine Institute talking more about the paper on our website cddni.com.

The second paper from our lab group has just been published. If you are interested in using detection dogs for conservation, specifically for #seabird conservation then you definitely have to give this a read.

doi.org/10.61350/sbj.3…

Our new #sunfish paper is out!🐠🐟🐡New northerly limit for the sharptail mola: first sighting of Masturus lanceolatus in the northeast Irish Sea onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jf… Great fun with Tierney Thys & Declan Quigley, photo credit Niamh Gilmore, published fsbi #Mola

It was so lovely to have you both over here! And we can't wait to launch your brilliant video!! 🌊🦈⛸️🌊🩵
With huge thanks to the Marine Institute for making it possible!

Busy start to 2024! Angel sharks & seaweeds in Ireland, wirebirds & whale sharks in St Helena, international symposiums in London, finally back to lovely Cornwall!☀️Irish Elasmobranch Group QueensMarineLab St Helena National Trust St Helena Government Blue Belt Programme