Survey for the Marine Conservation Society
Dungeness, Lydd Ranges
Saturday June 27th – 9.30 to 1.30
This will be our quarterly OSPAR survey for the Marine Conservation Society. It is a tough event, with a long walk over shingle to reach our survey. Not suitable for young children or anyone with mobility issues. If you are up for a challenge, sign up through the Marine Conservation Society website.
Community River Watch – Eastbourne
Strandliners is working with four community groups across the Eastbourne, Polegate and Pevensey areas acting as ‘hubs’ for regular water quality testing by volunteers.
Demonstrations and training sessions are being held at each ‘hub’ over the next few weeks, open to everyone. Please come along to see how it works, and decide if you would like to be part of the ongoing project. If you can’t get to a session in your area, come to one of the others – the format will be the same.
New dates coming soon.
Training and equipment provided along with ongoing support from Strandliners.
Results from water testing so far can be seen on the Blue Heart Community Map, and on the Water Rangers interactive map. This project is supported by Blue Heart.
Recent Events
Fundraiser for Strandliners & Surfers Against Sewage
Huge congratulations to Les Reines du Rother, who successfully swum the English Channel by relay. What a feat, 100 years after the first female channel swimmer. These amazing women whose concern for the health of our rivers and seas fuelled their courage and determination to raise awareness and to raise funds for Surfers Against Sewage and Strandliners. You can read more about their adventure on our blog here.
There is just still time to support them via their JustGiving page.
Beach clean and survey at De La Warr Pavilion, Bexhill
As part of the Attenborough Awareness Day, Bexhill Environment Group ran a 2-hour beach clean along Bexhill sea front, and Strandliners carried out a brand audit of the rubbish as part of the SAS Million Mile Clean.
We identified 3,545 items, weighing a total of 38.26 kg
41% was plastic
21% of the rubbish was paper/card (by number of items)
With small percentages of other materials/categories.
Astonishingly, we identified over 600 branded items, most of which were food packaging. You can read more on our blog here.
Fairlight Berm
A small team spent the day clearing the rubbish from behind the Fairlight Berm, sustained by tea and cake! We found even more rubbish than last year. Much of the foam was from the shipping containers lost in the winter storms.
We found:
14 bags of foam weighing 20.81 kg
24 bags of general rubbish weighing 96.30 kg
2 bags of drinking containers (almost 100) weighing 5.40 kg
A total of 122.51 kg removed from the beach!
It is impossible to do our normal survey here due to the huge number of small pieces.
Our friends from the Pett Level Independent Rescue Boat (PLIRB) collected the rubbish as a training exercise.