Celebrate Marine Month in Essex
August is Essex Wildlife Trust’s Marine Month, so what better time to get out and celebrate the spectacular coastline right on our doorstep!
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How to help marine life
By taking small actions and making small changes, we can help to protect and conserve our beautiful coastline.
Marine
There's another world waiting beneath the waves. Seals weave in and out of sunlit kelp forests, cuttlefish flash all the colours of the rainbow, starfish graze along the muddy seabed and…
Marine and coastal recovery
How we're protecting and restoring marine wildlife and habitats.
Marine Week Species
Find out more about our six featured Marine Week species.
Marine Team goes live for National Marine Week
This National Marine Week, we are spotlighting the conservation work our Marine Team does for local habitats and species. Tune in to our live-streamed videos on Instagram to learn all about what…
Diving into National Marine Week
Campaigns Assistant, Gemma, shares some of her most captivating marine encounters from tropical waters and how our local marine life might not be so different...
National Marine Week
Join our celebration of Essex’s 350-mile coastline.
Art competition celebrates National Marine Week
This year we are celebrating UK marine life in a creative and artistic way. From 16 July, we are inviting everyone in Essex to create a piece of art inspired by the coast.
Art competition to celebrate marine life now open
There's three categories to enter and marine prizes to be won.
Marine art competition winners revealed
The second year of Coastal Creations Art Competition has come to an end, with three new fin-tastic winners announced.
‘Beast from the East’ causes marine life die-off
A dramatic drop in sea temperature caused a mass die-off in marine life around the country, including on the Essex coast