As a marine conservation charity we have an innate love for our ocean. Discover just some of our favourite facts and stats about the ocean - guaranteed to give you a new found respect for the deep ...

19 countries ratified the treaty during the conference, while other nations, such as the UK, formally committed to ratifying ...

25 Jun 2025. The governments of the UK are falling even further behind in their duty to recover our seas. All four governments in the UK have published the latest assessment of how our own patch of ...

The Marine Conservation Society is the UK’s leading environmental marine charity by and for ocean lovers. We are the go-to voice of the sea, defending habitats & species.

All four governments in the UK have published the latest assessment of how our own patch of the global ocean is doing; it makes for sobering reading.

The more of us who join together as the voice of our ocean – the louder we will be. Register to become a volunteer 'Sea Champion' and you'll get access to your own personal dashboard where you can see ...

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A huge thank you to everyone who got involved with a beach clean or litter survey in 2024. Here's a full breakdown of the results. More than 15,000 volunteers completed over 1,200 litter surveys in ...

If you decide to eat seafood but are looking for the best choice to eat, our regularly updated guide can help. Make sustainable seafood choices today. Good Fish Guide seafood ratings are based on ...

There are over 650 species of seaweed found around the UK and we’re on the lookout for 14 of them. These 14 species were chosen because they're good indicator species – a species whose presence, ...

Our ocean covers over 70% of our planet. It provides more than half the oxygen we breathe and absorbs nearly a third of our carbon emissions. But today, it’s in crisis. Right now, we’re polluting our ...