A bylaw which will see trawling excluded from a 117 square mile area of Sussex coastline to allow the recovery of kelp forests has been propsed. It follows an MCS-supported campaign ‘Help our Kelp’ that was also backed by Sir David Attenborough.

An olive ridley turtle rescued by swimmers off Seaford beach, East Sussex, has died say staff at Brighton’s Sea Life Centre.

Plenty more fish in the sea? Maybe not! The way we catch and produce fish is damaging our seas. Fishing and fish farming are changing our oceans and we’re driving the demand for fish that are endangered or at risk.

This week, on 16th and 17th December, annual negotiations for fishing quotas in the EU will commence between EU Member States. These negotiations are set to be unlike any previous as they may well be the last for the UK.

David Bellamy became a household name as a TV personality, scientist and conservationist and was among a group of divers who founded what was to become the Marine Conservation Society in the 1970's, playing a huge part in getting marine conservation on the map of the UK.

Nature photographer Dan Thurling has captured upsetting images of a grey seal pup chewing on a glass Starbucks bottle. The pictures were taken in Donna Nook nature reserve in Lincolnshire, the area is home to one of the UK’s largest breeding colonies of grey seals.

This year’s Great British Beach Clean (20-23rd September 2019), saw 437 beach cleans and litter surveys take place, with over 10,800 volunteers getting involved who removed 10,833kg of litter from the UK’s beaches. That's almost 11 tonnes of litter in one weekend alone!

The #iwill campaign aims to make social action the norm for people under 20. MCS is really lucky to have hundreds of young people doing their bit for the ocean and this week we’re celebrating their stories and achievements.