How to help marine life
By taking small actions and making small changes, we can help to protect and conserve our beautiful coastline.
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Marine and coastal recovery
How we're protecting and restoring marine wildlife and habitats.
Essex Wildlife Trust marks 60 years of protecting wildlife
The conservation charity is asking members of the public to help record species to celebrate their anniversary
Marine
There's another world waiting beneath the waves. Seals weave in and out of sunlit kelp forests, cuttlefish flash all the colours of the rainbow, starfish graze along the muddy seabed and…
Help marine wildlife & reduce plastic in Essex
Essex Wildlife Trust is calling for volunteers to get involved with monthly beach cleans
Protecting beach-nesting birds
We are raising awareness and protecting birds that nest on Essex beaches.
Protecting water voles
Water voles are the UK’s fastest declining mammal, but we are doing everything we can to change that.
Marine Week Species
Find out more about our six featured Marine Week species.
Marine Team goes live for National Marine Week
This National Marine Week, we are spotlighting the conservation work our Marine Team does for local habitats and species. Tune in to our live-streamed videos on Instagram to learn all about what…
Essex Police launch Operation Seabird to save marine wildlife
Essex Polica have launched an operation to protect birds and other wildlife on our shores.
Diving into National Marine Week
Campaigns Assistant, Gemma, shares some of her most captivating marine encounters from tropical waters and how our local marine life might not be so different...
Protecting insect species in Essex
It was worrying to hear further news of insect decline earlier this year; it is reported that more than 40% of insect species are declining and a third are endangered.