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A green and purple Snakelocks Anemone in a kelp forest underwater.

Fundraise for our oceans! 🌊

Whether you walk for wildlife, do a sponsored swim or have a marine-themed bake sale, the money you raise helps us to protect marine life in South & West Wales.

Become a #WILDFundraiser: champ.ly/lWlco-yL

#NationalMarineWeek

Bright orange and white corals underwater.

You don’t need to live near to coast to make a difference to our oceans. Taking action to reduce your carbon emissions can make a huge difference to marine life. 🌍

Learn more: www.welshwildlife.org/learn/things-you-can-do-about-climate-change

#NationalMarineWeek

A starfish and snail in a rockpool.

Record your sightings! ⭐📋

Citizen science is a huge part of marine conservation and one of the most fun ways of helping our seabeds. Whether you’re out snorkelling or rock pooling, you can record your findings by submitting them to the iNaturalist app.

#NationalMarineWeek

A Spotted Catshark hiding in sea weeds.

Did you know that bottom trawling is still allowed in many Marine Protected Areas? We want this to stop. We're calling for bottom trawling to be banned in seabed MPAs, and we need your help.🌊📣

Add your voice: champ.ly/DEW472CX

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A seagrass seabed with anemone.

Why seabeds matter? 🌊 💙

These vital habitats are full of incredible wildlife and store vast amounts of carbon. Yet they are threatened with destruction by industrial scale fishing in many areas. For #NationalMarineWeek we’ll be sharing how you can help save our seabeds.

A male Cuckoo Wrasse - a large, slender fish with electric blue markings on his head and back.

These colourful Cuckoo Wrasse are found on rocky areas around our coastline. They all start life as females but can change to males when the dominant male on the reef disappears! 🌈🐟

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A white banded tentacles in a double spiral inbetween pink rocks and seaweed.

Worms in the sea are anything but dull and Twin Fan Worms are a perfect example of the intricate beauty these animals possess. Their tentacles help to collect food and extract oxygen from the sea water. 🌀🌊

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A Little Cuttlefish in front of a purple anemone. It has a rounded cup-like body and protrusive eyes. It is pale with brown and white blotchy markings.

The Little Cuttlefish is often found buried in sandy seabeds with only their eyes exposed, on the look out for predators and prey. They most often appear white with brown and black splodges to blend in with their sandy home, but are able to change colour. 🦑🌊

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A Great Scallop on the seabed.

Scallops have 200 small eyes which help to detect predators. They can swim out of harm's way by rapidly opening and shutting their shells, sending out jets of water which propel them over short distances. If they avoid predation they can live up to 20 years! 🐚👀

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An Orange Clubbed Sea Slug. It has a white body covered in bright orange spots and orange tipped stalks or clubs.

Orange Clubbed Sea Slugs can be found on rocky shores around the country, but at just 2cm in length they can be hard to spot! The vibrant orange clubs covering its body have different functions, including taste and smell. 🧡🌊

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A Common Lobster in a rocky crevice. It is a deep blue colour, with 2 red antennae and 2 large pincers.

Lobsters are common around our coastline, but despite their familiarity you might not know that they are actually blue - they only turn red when cooked! Lobsters are nocturnal, coming out at night to search out food on the seabed. 🦞💙

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A mass gathering of Spiny Spider Crabs - orange crabs with long, spindly legs like a spider. They have an oval, spiky shell that is often covered in algae.

A Spiny Spider Crab - an orange crab with long, spindly legs like a spider. They have an oval, spiky shell that is often covered in algae.

Every summer Spiny Spider Crabs undertake an epic migration, traveling to shallow coastal waters to moult on mass. They group together to provide safety in numbers as they shed their old shells. 🦀🌊

#NationalMarineWeek

A young bottlenose dolphin in Cardigan Bay leaping across the surface of the green sea. Credited Sarah Perry / CBMWC. Taken aboard Dolphin Survey Boat Trips during an CBMWC / WTSWW marine mammal research survey.

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📷 ©️ Sarah Perry / May 2025

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Two bottlenose dolphins in Cardigan Bay. Two dorsal fins are visible above the surface of the green-blue water. One dorsal fin has a large white mark on the right side. Credited Sarah Perry / CBMWC. Taken aboard Dolphin Survey Boat Trips during an CBMWC / WTSWW marine mammal research survey.

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📷 ©️ Sarah Perry / May 2025

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A Pink Sea Fan. An orange branching coral underwater.

Corals aren’t only found in tropical waters, we have lots of colourful coral along our coastline, like this Pink Sea Fan. They grow very slowly - only 1cm a year - so the largest sea fans may be over 50 years old!

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Our underwater cameras in Cardigan Bay give an incredible insight into our seabeds in West Wales. They recently captured an Angelshark, one of the world's rarest & most threatened shark species! 🦈

Read the full story: champ.ly/RIUSW4c3

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A few bottlenose dolphins in Cardigan Bay just visible at the surface of the green-blue sea with the coastline in the background. Credited Sarah Perry / CBMWC Taken aboard Dolphin Survey Boat Trips during an CBMWC / WTSWW marine mammal research survey in Cardigan Bay.

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📷 ©️ Sarah Perry / Jul 2025

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Bottlenose dolphin in Cardigan Bay exhaling at the surface. Credited Sarah Perry / CBMWC. Taken aboard Dolphin Survey Boat Trips during an CBMWC / WTSWW marine mammal research survey.

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📷 ©️ Sarah Perry / May 2025

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Underwater photograph of a Bottlenose dolphin in Cardigan Bay, rising up from the depths. Credited Sarah Perry / CBMWC. Taken aboard Dolphin Survey Boat Trips during an CBMWC / WTSWW marine mammal research survey.

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📷 ©️ Sarah Perry / Jul 2025

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A peek 👀 behind the scenes of our recent BRUVS deployments as part of our #NatureNetworksFund #DolphinDietDetectives project 📹🛥️🐟.

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Bottlenose dolphin in Cardigan Bay leaping out of a mirror calm sea. Water drops cascade from the dolphins body. Credited to Sarah Perry / CBMWC. Taken aboard Dolphin Survey Boat Trips during an CBMWC / WTSWW marine mammal research survey.

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📷 ©️ Sarah Perry / July 2025

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📷 ©️ Sarah Perry / May 2025

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📷 ©️ Sarah Perry / May 2025

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Bottlenose dolphins in Cardigan Bay taken aboard Dolphin Survey Boat Trips during an CBMWC / WTSWW marine mammal research survey. Two bottlenose dolphins are featured in the photograph, one dolphins face is visible behind the other dolphins dorsal fin which has a few dolphin tooth-rake marks visible on it. Credited Sarah Perry / CBMWC

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📷 ©️ Sarah Perry / Jun 2024

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Bottlenose dolphin in Cardigan Bay breaching out of the water. The dolphins underbelly is visible. Credited Sarah Perry / CBMWC Taken aboard Dolphin Survey Boat Trips during an CBMWC / WTSWW marine mammal research survey.

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📷 ©️ Sarah Perry / May 2025

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Bottlenose dolphin viewed from above, visible under the surface of the water. Credited Sarah Perry / CBMWC. Taken aboard Dolphin Survey Boat Trips during an CBMWC / WTSWW marine mammal research survey

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📷 ©️ Sarah Perry / Jul 2022

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Two Bottlenose dolphins in Cardigan Bay just visible under the surface of the sea. Credit Sarah Perry / CBMWC Taken aboard Dolphin Survey Boat Trips during an CBMWC / WTSWW marine mammal research survey

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📷 ©️ Sarah Perry / Jul 2025

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📷 ©️ Sarah Perry / May 2025

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📷 ©️ Sarah Perry / Apr 2017

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