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Annual Great Muddle.......

....is definitely not what the Coastwise AGM was !

The meeting covered the AGM and four member's short talks on Wistlandpound Reservoir birds, the INNSHORE survey programme, the Eurasian Shrew and some of the marine life at Greencliff.

Jonathan Nicholl is the WEBS surveyor for Wistlandpound, and the process informs trends, distribution and the importance of various sites. He does a monthly survey, and highlights have been sightings of Large Egrets, a Mandarin Duck and Great Crested Grebes.

Frozen......

 

(See below for YouTube video of the talk)

.....no, not the Disney media franchise, but Coastwise speaker Nadia Frontier when scuba diving in the Antarctic Ocean.

Nadia is a marine biology graduate whose CV includes conservation work in Tanzania, work at the MBA in Plymouth and the French equivalent near Roscoff.

She then took a 30-month assignment with the British Antarctic Survey at the Rothera base, which is at 67 degrees S in the Antarctic international jurisdiction.

Understanding MARINELife............

......which is run by a passionate team of conservationists, including Director of Research Tom Brereton who, as well as this role, is also Visiting Professor in Conservation Science at the University of Nottingham and Associated Director, Monitoring Research for Butterfly Conservation.

Tom gave Coastwise members a broad picture of the research into marine animal presence and movements around the UK, most of which requires the cooperation of friendly ferry and fishing boat operators, and volunteer observers prepared to go out and identify and count sightings.

The Process of Farming.....

......but offshore, using wind, was the topic that Laura Gatdula, an independant environmental consultant working in the field, covered in her talk to Coastwise members.

She was careful to point out that her expertise lies in assembling the Environmental Impact Statements that are a statutory requirement in an application, and that and she has no connection with the proposed Whitecross development, other than being a concerned Braunton resident. However, she was able to comment on some aspects of the conceptual design as an informed member of the public.

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