Colin Speedie's book on #BaskingSharks, a journey amidst wild seas, people & #conservation, describing the history of hunting & protection of the iconic species
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Any #BaskingShark obsessives without A Sea Monster's Tale on their bookshelf?! Christmas is coming...🤔🎁🦈✔️😀
press.princeton.edu/books/ha… @PrincetonNature #shark #sharkconservation #sailing #adventure #conservationoptimism #citizenscience #marineconservation #stockingfiller #MVEC
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Good Luck to all the @animalstaruk Young Animal Hero finalists !
💜 #YoungAnimalHero #AnimalStars #AnimalStar
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Looking forward to this at the Ardchattan Centre with the wonderful @BreegeSmyth #nature #redsquirrels #owls #pinemarten @JennyBrownBooks @TheFriendMag @ScotsMagazine @bonniegala
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Want to learn about ways to achieve safe and sustainable marine wildlife watching? Book a place on one of our WiSe Standard or Adventure online courses this spring via our website wisescheme.org
ALT Want to learn about ways to achieve safe and sustainable marine wildlife watching for the 2023 season? Then come and book a place on one of our WiSe Standard or Adventure online courses this spring via our website https://www.wisescheme.org . Thousands of individuals have benefited from attending one of our courses over the last 20 years - come and join them and help protect our precious marine life neighbours.
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The first WiSe courses for 2023 are now available for booking - see wisescheme.org - First up an online Adventure course focusing on England & Wales for coasteering/SUP/kayaking/coast walking practitioners on the 7/8th March @ £100 per person over 2 nights 7-9pm
This Weds at Glenuig Hall, Colin will be giving a talk on behalf of the Moidart Local History Group on the Basking Shark in Scotland, past, present and future.
All welcome, 1930 start.
#baskingshark #shark #marineconservation #glenuig #lochailort #lochaber #moidart
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There are few remaining frontiers on our planet. Perhaps the wildest, and least understood, are the world’s oceans: too big to police, and under no clear international authority.
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Congratulations to the fine team at Irish Basking Shark Group for achieving this momentous result! Thanks, too, to the enlightened TD’s who saw this through - a great day!
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On this #WorldWildlifeDay, we celebrate a truly momentous occasion. The IBSG welcomes today’s Government announcement that they intend to provide legal protection to basking sharks in Irish waters by listing them on the Wildlife Act. A quick thread (1/n):
gov.ie/en/press-release/04f6…
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Sparrowhawk family with 5 chicks, a knee rubbing sight from a well hidden hide 🙂
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Proud to announce the publication of a new open access paper on the historical occurrence of #whales (and #whaling) in Scotland. Many years in the making with @susa_scoter, @denrisch, Russell Leaper and Cherry Allison @iwc_int.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/… – at Tobermory, Scotland
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2nd week onboard Bold Ranger looking for #baskingsharks around #Coll & #Tiree 🦈 Awesome common + risso’s dolphins, plenty seabirds but no 🦈’s to be seen. Local fishermen saying everything is 4 weeks late this season, are they still down your way @haleydolton @BaskingIrish ??
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Still time to book your place at @mcsuk online talk tomorrow evening with @MirandaKnature and @pb_richardson Everything you need to know about the ocean and climate. eventbrite.co.uk/e/beneath-t…
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We saw so many dead seabirds on Shetland last week. This is heart breaking. Seabirds were struggling enough already, without this too.
We completed the Great Skua census today on #StKilda and the impact of the current #AvianInfluenza outbreak is clear: 66 territories represents a 64% decline since 2019. 106 dead so far this season, with half of them found in the last week. Worrying times ahead for our Bonxies.
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How can historical sources help in #conservation? We examined 275-year old handwritten naturalist's notes to provide further evidence that a few specific reefs on the Welsh coast are vitally important to critically endangered angel sharks, which have become extinct elsewhere
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Our first marine sighting from #StKilda this season was this adult Basking Shark, seen in Village Bay by multiple visitors this afternoon from in front of the Manse. Let's hope this is the first of many more encounters! @mcsuk @BaskingSharkSco #baskingshark
...and sharks.
New research to better understand the scale and impacts of marine animal entanglement in the Scottish creel fishery
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We've pledged our support for this great project – have you? Check it out crowdfunder.co.uk/the-old-fo… crowdfunder.co.uk/the-old-fo… @oldforgecbs #oldforgecbs #oldforgeknoydart #knoydart #noroadin #sailing #baskingshark
Typo! @theoldforgecbs and best of luck on your fundraising - looking forward to come visit you again!
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📍JOB ALERT 📍
We are seeking a self-motivated, enthusiastic and experienced Executive Officer to assist the Research Vessel Operations team in admin duties. #RVTomCrean.
Read the full job description 👉bit.ly/3i3k8jw
📅Closing date is Wed, 6 Oct at 12pm @JobFairyHQ
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The latest update of the @IUCNRedList of Threatened Species blames overfishing for increasing extinction risk to hundreds of shark and ray species 🦈 #IUCNCongress #GlobalSharkStatus dw.com/en/2-in-5-shark-speci…