Interview: Clare Brook on career switch to conservation
Blue Marine Foundation’s CEO Clare Brook discusses her career path from impact investing to leading Europe’s largest marine conservation NGO.
25 March 2026
Chile’s endemic seals gain protection with new marine park
Sixty years after the discovery of a colony of Juan Fernández fur seals, previously thought to be extinct, a landmark agreement extends ‘no take’ zone around the wildlife-rich archipelago.
23 March 2026
Sussex seabed shows early revival five years after trawling ban
Five years after a trawling ban by the Sussex Inshore Fisheries and Conservation Authority, the Sussex seabed shows early recovery, with mussel beds returning and fish populations beginning to rebuild.
18 March 2026
Interview: Jersey’s new marine protected areas
BBC Radio Jersey interviewed Blue Marine Foundation on the expansion of Jersey’s marine protected area network.
13 March 2026
Jersey nearly quadruples marine protection
Jersey has approved one of the most ambitious marine protection plans in the British Isles, nearly quadrupling the area of its seas protected from damaging fishing practices.
12 March 2026
NGOs take Dutch government to court over destructive fishing
The area is a protected North Sea nature area, but the Dutch administration currently permits bottom trawling in majority of the area, harming threatened species which continue to live in the area.
11 March 2026
Scampi fishing in North Sea driving ‘invisible’ climate cost
Research led by the University of Exeter examined carbon in the Fladen Ground – a large muddy seabed east of Scotland.
06 March 2026
NGOs condemn UK plan to cut climate aid and Blue Planet fund
FOI requests have revealed that the UK government is set to cut, or drastically reduce, programmes designed to protect nature and the environment in developing countries.
03 March 2026