Alan Munro

The ocean needs YOU — Young Sea Changers Scotland Make 2026 the year you take action for our ocean.

🗣️ Calling all budding young ocean leaders — the ocean needs YOU! (now more than ever)

Whatever your skills, passion, or background, there is a place for you in the movement to protect our blue planet.

Read more how here: www.youthforseas.org/blogs/the-oc...

Scot Gov delays marine protection (again) until AFTER May 2026 election
Lines on a map are NOT protection! Destructive bottom trawling continues in our protected areas, devastating vital habitats. The costs of this delay are severe.

Read more: www.scotlink.org/environment-...

#savescottishseas

Interested in the ocean but don't know where to start? 💭

🌊 Turning the Tide is our flagship training and skill development programme for young people to kickstart their journey in marine advocacy 🌊

Sign up: bit.ly/ttt26-intro and read more: youthforseas.org/turning-the-...

Today MSPs in a key parliamentary committee are debating crucial changes to the Natural Environment Bill! 🐦🐝🐈🐿️

We’re calling on them to make sure Scotland's new nature targets are as strong as possible, and that they come into force without delay.

#ScottishParliament #ScotlandLovesNature

This isn't a game. It's a guaranteed environmental disaster.

But every field stopped is a victory. And we're going to win.

Join us → https://bit.ly/490ZLPq

#OilFieldFiles

Fantastic to have @alanmunro.bsky.social Director and founder of @youth4seas.bsky.social officially launch the first Youth Manifesto for our seas to kick off the Ocean Hustings!

#SeaScotland2025

First Minister among MSPs meeting Scots to talk about climate change and how to tackle it at Scotland's biggest ever climate lobby  - Stop Climate Chaos Scotland Hundreds of people from across Scotland have gathered in Edinburgh to talk climate with political leaders as part of the biggest ever mass lobby on the topic to be held in Scotland.  Residents from no...

Our mass climate lobby press release features quotes from:

SCCS Chair
First Minister @johnswinney.bsky.social
Dr Rachel Hardie from the Borders
@foescot.bsky.social
@oxfamscotland.bsky.social
@youth4seas.bsky.social
@sciaf.bsky.social

www.stopclimatechaos.scot/first-minist...

Are you ready for Sea Scotland 2025?

🤝 Engage with our delegates, speakers & sponsors
📖 Enjoy the @scotwildlife.bsky.social Words of the Wild exhibition
🚀 Celebrate the launch of the @youth4seas.bsky.social
Youth Manifesto for Scotland’s Seas

Make sure you grab your ticket! bit.ly/44nKQfm

Come join my team!

CCN priorities for the 2026 Scottish elections - CCN Scotland Community organisations from across Scotland’s coast have co-developed these priorities, drawing on their vast knowledge and experiences. These aim for an ecosystem based recovery of our marine and co...

The next Scottish Government will bring us to 2030, the milestone year where Scotland has committed to halting biodiversity loss. This makes next year's elections a critical moment for Scotland's seas.

Read CCN's priorities for the 2026 elections:
www.communitiesforseas.scot/2026-electio...

I'm delighted to have Jess on the team! At YSCS, we're committed to removing barriers for young people from different backgrounds to find a place in the marine conservation sector. If your organisation wants to know more about how to meaningfully involve young people in your work, reach out!

Tickets for this year's Community Gathering are now LIVE! 🔥

📍The Social Hub Glasgow
📅Sat 6th Sept
🙌Young people aged 16-25
💰Tickets from £0 to £10

For details, how to get there, accessibility and other FAQs, see Eventbrite and get your tickets now: bit.ly/yscs-gatheri...

Our Youth Advocacy Officer, Dr Elizabeth Mills, wrote a powerful blog with a call to action to marine organisations to put young people and ocean literacy at the heart of marine decision-making.

Check it out 👇

Government 'quietly drops' fight for tougher anti-protest laws used to arrest climate activist Greta Thunberg LBC can reveal the government has backed down in its legal fight for tougher anti-protest laws, used to arrest hundreds of protesters including climate activist Greta Thunberg.

🚨 BREAKING UPDATE

Labour has FINALLY accepted defeat in our legal challenge of anti-protest powers

We won this case in court twice - under both Conservative and Labour leadership

Gov must now commit to reviewing ALL arrests made under these unlawful powers

www.lbc.co.uk/news/exclusi...

📣Use your voice to speak up for Scotland's seas this World Ocean Day! 🌊

Contribute to the first-ever Youth Manifesto for Scotland's Seas and demand stronger political action for our marine environment.

👉www.youthforseas.org/youth-manifesto

#WOD #WOD2025 #ScotlandSeas #YouthVoice

We're offering a very cool short-term Trainee opportunity for a young person from BAME background to offer some valuable experience in the sector!

Meet the YSCS Team! Having joined YSCS last year and recently completed Turning the Tide, Isadora is our newest youth trustee on our board and brings a passion for sustainable fisheries management to the team.

Welcome Isadora! 🐳Check out her full blog post at: www.youthforseas.org/.../meet-the...

Home Page - CCN Scotland Welcome to the Coastal Communities Network.

Delighted to join the inaugural Board of Trustees of @communitiesforseas.bsky.social!

This marks an exciting milestone for this network of community-led organisations and I’m honoured to support its mission and help shape its future.

👉 www.communitiesforseas.scot

Totally agree. It's time for us to be bold and support calls for bottom-trawling and dredging to be banned in our Marine Protected Areas.

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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Less than a week to go until we're joined by @radapandeva.bsky.social for an inspiring session! Still time to register for a ticket

🎟 tinyurl.com/5y9kdmbc

Well done Claudia and all the other TTT 2025 participants! Very excited to see what you do next.

🚨 WE ARE RECRUITING 🚨

Could you be our Mass Lobby Coordinator?

We are looking for a highly organised and effective coordinator to oversee the planning and delivery of a mass climate lobby of MSPs in September 2025.

Find out more and apply here: www.stopclimatechaos.scot/stop-climate...

Wrasse are caught & used as cleaner fish in fish farms. Millions of them are being caught & killed after used. These are amazing fish that should surely have some protection. Would we sacrifice wild birds for chicken farms?

The Blue Starfish response

@siftscotland.bsky.social @mcsuk.bsky.social

🚗💨 The Scottish Government has ditched targets to cut car km by 20% by 2030.

This is yet another climate U-turn, despite transport being Scotland’s top source of emissions.

Lack of leadership = unsafe roads, poor public transport & broken promises.

✉️ Write to your MSPs sccs.eaction.org.uk/climate

Ministers threatened with legal action over fishing of ‘vital’ species The Sustainable Inshore Fisheries Trust has called on the Scottish Government to stop the fishing of wrasse in marine protected areas.

Excellent news, this fishery is an environmental and welfare nightmare. We would not tolerate the same situation with birds. @mairigougeon.bsky.social
news.stv.tv/scotland/min...

Sunday mornings done right! The spring edition of the @mcsuk.bsky.social Your Ocean magazine landed this week ☕️ 🦭

Check this out if you're looking to connect with cool organisations and individuals taking action for Scotland's seas 👇

Another massive milestone for @youth4seas.bsky.social! 🎊

We're breaking down barriers to youth-led marine action!

If you're a young person looking to make waves in marine advocacy & campaigning, or know someone who is, stay tuned for applications opening next week!

Tanzania’s marine reserves offer long-term benefits to communities, study finds Marine protected areas in Tanzania boosted living standards in nearby communities over a span of nearly 20 years, a recent study in Conservation Letters found. Near MPAs, living standards improved, an...

Tanzania’s marine reserves offer long-term benefits to communities, study finds: news.mongabay.com/2025/03/tanz... #oceanoptimism #mpaswork #marineconservation #fisheries 🐟