National Marine Week is a chance to celebrate the wonderful wildlife and incredible habitats around our seas which are home to over half of all our wildlife (more than 30,000 species), contribute to flood management and water purification, and provide the oxygen for every other breath you take!
There are lots of ways you can get involved in Somerset to help us take action for our own special 53-mile-long coast as part of our Somerset’s Wilder Coast project - funded by Hinkley ‘C’ Community Fund and the National Lottery’s Climate Action Fund.
As well as working with communities from Minehead to Brean on their own local projects to better connect people to coastal wildlife and habitats, we are also running various citizen science surveys. Our Shoresearch volunteers go out to different beaches once a month to survey intertidal life. No previous knowledge is needed and it’s a great way to get to know more about our rocky and muddy shores. We also run monthly Sea Watch surveys looking out for porpoises, seals and other sea mammals.