Esther Brooker

🌊 Registrations are now OPEN for Sea Scotland 2025!

Grab your spot to join our first-ever Ocean Hustings on 6th October at the Edinburgh Climate Change Institute.

🚨Register today: bit.ly/44nKQfm

An underwater photo showing the seabed. The surface of the water is visible to the top of the photo while below is the sandy seabed scattered with fronds of dense brown seaweed and rocks covered in green seaweed. Photo taken by Noel Hawkins.

Fancy exploring life under the waves? 🤿

Dive into Scotland’s first Snorkel Festival with us! Led by Berwickshire Marine Reserve, there are lots of great events running from Friday 27 to Sunday 29 June. We hope to sea you there! 🌊

Book your place today! 👇
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Why marine protected areas are essential for Scotland’s traditional fishing industry The SNP government didn’t even mention the sea in its recent Programme for Government

“Marine protected areas are essential for Scotland’s traditional fishing industry”. In a new article, LINK expresses concerns over the lack of marine actions in the Programme for Government and calls for the long-awaited fisheries management measures in MPAs.

📖 Read the article: bit.ly/3Siis7L

Blue sea and a rocky, grassy coastline

In 2020, we published the Ocean Recovery Plan, calling for urgent action to restore Scotland’s seas by 2030.

Now, our first review (2020–2024) is out. How much progress has been made?

📘 Read the report: www.scotlink.org/an-ocean-rec...

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Excited for the next Sea Scotland event - first ever ocean hustings ahead of Holyrood Elections in 2026!

🌊 Sea Scotland 2025🌊
This autumn, ahead of next year’s election, we will host our first ever Ocean Hustings, in partnership with @youth4seas.bsky.social

Discuss plans to support our marine environment and coastal communities with Scottish political parties:
www.seascotland.scot/sea-scotland...

Ocean with David Attenborough is now in cinemas - a new feature-length documentary showing there is nowhere more vital for our survival, more full of life, wonder, or surprise, than the ocean.

In Scotland, we have been waiting for over ten years for the vital protections needed for our seas. 1/2

👇🏻🦞🐬🐟🪼🦭🦈🌊🪸

Woop! Keep this date in your diary! 👇🏻🐟🌊

Defining marine rewilding can help guide theory and practice in marine conservation - Communications Earth & Environment The concept of rewilding, an approach to conservation aimed at the recovery of complex ecosystems, can be extended from the terrestrial to the marine realm and applied to degraded marine ecosystems.

New paper! “Defining marine rewilding can help guide theory and practice in marine conservation”. I’m beyond excited that the first paper of my PhD is now live and open access! @uniofhull.bsky.social @uofglasgow.bsky.social @rewrite-eu.bsky.social

www.nature.com/articles/s43...

🌊 Sea Scotland is now on Bluesky! 🌊

Since 2016, Sea Scotland Conference has provided a platform for knowledge exchange and progressive marine policy discussions. Follow us for future updates, and join the Sea Scotland community to debate and tackle critical issues facing our seas.🐳

Today the Rewild research group is at The Deep aquarium in Hull talking all things rewilding. Lots to get involved in! #Colliderfest @universityofhull.bsky.social

Today I am joining the Marine Forum at the National Museum Scotland. Looking forward to a great line up of talks and sessions, and participating in a panel discussion later on!
#MarineForum2025 @scotlink.bsky.social

Understanding of marine ecosystems is alarmingly low – here’s why ocean literacy matters Knowledge is one of the most powerful tools to incite the action needed to save ocean health, so better ocean literacy is essential.

theconversation.com/understandin...

Saving Scotland’s Seabirds: A Call to Action - Scotlink Guest blog by Caitlin Paul, Marine Policy Officer at RSPB Scotland As someone who has always had a deep love for Scottish seas and the vibrant marine life it supports, I’ve recently focused my passion...

"The diversity and uniqueness of our seabirds is remarkable, yet their survival is increasingly threatened as they face a relentless wave of challenges, and it’s now widely acknowledged that urgent action is needed."

Read more about how you can help our seabirds:

www.scotlink.org/saving-scotl...

#DYK nearly 75% of major marine fish stocks have been depleted/overexploited & 50% of live coral cover on reefs destroyed?

- @ipbes.bsky.social #GlobalAssessment

Let’s restore our ocean's vitality & ensure a more sustainable future. 🪸🌍🧪🦈

Our views on the 2024 Report to the Scottish Parliament on how Scotland’s marine protected area network is progressing 👇🏻

Three Puffins on a rock.

Today, @ScotGov launched their Seabird Action Plan consultation. This is our chance to speak up for Scotland’s seabirds and secure the protection they need.

Sign the e-action here: action.rspb.org.uk/page/154240/...

📷 Colin Wilkinson

Reduce whale-ship strikes by making 2.6% of ocean surface safer, study says Researchers identify collision hotspots around world but reveal almost all these lack preventive measures

Reduce whale-ship strikes by making 2.6% of ocean surface safer, study says https://buff.ly/3Cy4ARZ 🧪🌎🦑

For the 🧪 feed - and, honestly, the #SciArt feed. Because this belongs in a museum 😂

That’s my reading for today sorted

Love seeing the woodcocks in our local area. 🪶 such a striking birds!

Fascinating series of articles on the future of fishing in the Clyde Sea (Scotland): www.heraldscotland.com/opinion/2470...

Saw this on Facebook. Can relate. (Although I am also a dog person!) 🤣🦈🐕

(Credit: Jessica Kira)

Excited to present my marine rewilding research to the University of Glasgow’s Aquatic Special Interest Group. Kudos to Graeme for the sign. #rewilding #marine

Home from South Africa and working through all my emails, to-do lists and notes from #IMCC7 What a great couple of weeks. I wish I could do it all again!

It looked like they were trying to encourage natural succession of the dune and build up of sand in the process. A friend didn’t think it was working too well though as bad weather was still causing erosion.

Very cool to see a live example of coastal rewilding while at Blouberg beach with the fam today. As mentioned in my talk at #IMCC7 this was one example that came up in my recent review on marine rewilding.

Found a link to the project here: vulaservices.com/project-1-ta...

Sorry I missed this - is this work published?

Out for dinner with the family after #IMCC7 Big shout out to my other half Adam for staying sane while keeping the kids under control while in Cape Town (I know which of us had the better deal!)