Local fishermen have offered to sponsor a new beach cleaning station at Melvaig in the Scottish Highlands after local residents requested their beach is added to the growing number of locations where locals and visitors alike can help remove litter from the beach.
Around 20 volunteers joined the Scottish Wildlife Trust’s Living Seas team to launch the new beach cleaning station with an extensive litter pick and they removed about a tonne of litter on the day. Noel Hawkins, from the Living Seas team said: “Hopefully it will be easier to keep under control with the bulk collected. This was the third beach clean station we’ve put out – one at Dum Canna, one on Skye and this one. There’s two more going to be put out on Coigach. We’re hoping to try and encourage locals and visitors to use them.”
Local residents and visitors can leave rubbish they pick up in large plastic boxes, which are emptied once full.
For more information about the Scottish Wildlife Trust’s Living Seas project you can visit their website by clicking here.
Nick and Caroline Robertson-BrownNick and Caroline (Frogfish Photography) are a married couple of conservation driven underwater photo-journalists and authors. Both have honours degrees from Manchester University, in Environmental Biology and Biology respectively, with Nick being a Fellow of the Royal Photographic Society, a former high school science teacher with a DipEd in Teaching Studies. Caroline has an MSc in Animal Behaviour specializing in Caribbean Ecology.
They are multiple award-winning photographers and along with 4 published books, feature regularly in the diving, wildlife and international press They are the Underwater Photography and Deputy Editors at Scubaverse and Dive Travel Adventures. Winners of the Caribbean Tourism Organization Photo-journalist of the Year for a feature on Shark Diving in The Bahamas, and they have been placed in every year they have entered.
Nick and Caroline regularly use their free time to visit schools, both in the UK and on their travels, to discuss the important issues of marine conservation, sharks and plastic pollution. They are ambassadors for Sharks4Kids and founders of SeaStraw. They are Dive Ambassadors for The Islands of The Bahamas and are supported by Mares, Paralenz, Nauticam and Olympus.
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