Coastal
Coastal habitats are found wherever the land meets the sea. With some 17,800km, the UK has one of the longest national coastlines in Europe. The coast is home to many habitats, with cliffs, rocky…
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Coastal Wildlife Survey
We need your help to record where five coastal species are. Fill in this survey after you visit the Essex coast this summer.
Coastal Defence and Realignment
Find out more about the coastal defence and realignment at Abbotts Hall.
The Essex Coastal Challenge
The Essex Coastal Challenge is back! Join the team wherever you are, whatever your fitness level, and be part of something big this August.
Coastal Creations Art Competition
Coastal Creations Art Competition
Essex Coastal Challenge Sponsorship
Essex Coastal Challenge Sponsorship
How to make a coastal garden
Coastal gardening can be a challenge, but with the right plants in the right place, your garden and its wildlife visitors can thrive.
Sign up to the Essex Coastal Challenge
Sign up to the Essex Coastal Challenge
Marine and coastal recovery
How we're protecting and restoring marine wildlife and habitats.
Coastal Warden scheme celebrates first anniversary
This year there will be more than 40 dedicated volunteer Coastal Wardens working to safeguard our coast.
Sheep's-bit
With its fluffy-looking, light blue flower heads, sheep's-bit is a pretty plant of dry grassland, heaths and clifftops. Sometimes carpeting an area, it is popular with nectar-loving insects…
Coastal and floodplain grazing marsh
Enormous flocks of geese, ducks and swans swirl down from wide skies to drop onto the flat, open expanses of flooded grazing marshes in winter. In spring, lapwing tumble overhead and the soft,…