Dear all,
just wanted to say a massive thank you to GAC logoistics who have kindly made a donation towards our work, this money was generated over Christmas by not sending out bottles of wine to their customers. Instead they kindly made a donation to us for each bottle they would have sent out. GAC have been great supporters of us in the past and once again a massive thank you to them.
http://www.gacworld.com/uklogistics
Check out Amandas blog on Cornish seahorses
http://whatswildincornwall.wordpress.com/2013/01/15/cornish-seahorses/
Please let the government know how you feel about the Marine Conservation Zone process by siging our petition. So far we have 7016 signatures and at the end of February or mid March we will send the petition to DEFRA and the Government so that they know the strength of feeling for this vitally important process.
The government have watered the process down from 120 proposed sites to 30 and not even included Studland Bay in the first tranche which is the most important site for Spinys Seahorses here in the UK, if not Europe.
Please sign on http://38degrees.uservoice.com/forums/189307-campaign-ideas-2013/suggestions/3524483-for-marine-conservation-zones-just-as-important
Dear all,
Happy New Year to you all and thank you for your amazing support in 2012, without you we could not have done so much.
2013 is set to be a very busy year and we all need to push hard to help protect not just the Seahorses but our Oceans as well.
Sadly, in 2012 the government announced it’s watered down version of the Marine Protected Zones (MPZ’s), which means we now have to go through a long consultation process to get one of the most important sites for Spiny Seahorses in Europe put forward for protection in 2013.
Studland Bay is a proposed Marine Protected Zones (pMPZ’s); it is set to be made an MPZ in the future but Studland Bay in Dorset does not have the time as has been shown by a recent report by Dr’s Jackson and Collins in their MAIA Report. The seagrass at Studland is fragmenting and as our own research has shown the number of seahorses has dropped from 59 in the second half of 2008 down to 7 identified individuals in 2012; time is not on the seahorses side. Please lobby your MP and the Department of Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA) urgently. Go onto the website below and look at the details and make your voice heard.
http://www.defra.gov.uk/consult/2012/12/13/marine-conservation-zones-1212/
Push to have Studland Bay put on the first tranche of MPZ’s for 2013 before we lose the Spiny Seahorses on the site forever.
Many thanks to one and all
Neil
Neil Garrick-Maidment Executive Director, The Seahorse Trust
The Seahorse Trust was set up in 1999 as an umbrella organisation to preserve and conserve the natural world, especially the marine environment using Seahorses as our flagship species. We work in partnership through a Seahorse Alliance with many organisations and people from all over the world and it is this unique partnership that allows us to achieve so much in the conservation of seahorses and their environment for the future.
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