Marine wildlife and me
Donal Griffin, marine conservation officer for The Wildlife Trusts, shares the experiences that inspired his love for the sea.
Donal Griffin, marine conservation officer for The Wildlife Trusts, shares the experiences that inspired his love for the sea.
Spiny lobster, crawfish, crayfish, rock lobsters - many names, one animal! This pretty lobster was made extinct in many areas through overfishing, but is now making a slow comeback.
A well known inhabitant of UK seas, common lobsters can reach up to 60cm in length.
A bizarre half lobster/half crab, this squat lobster is one of the true stunners of the rocky shore!
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…
Barnacles are so common on our rocky shores that you've probably never really noticed them. They're the little grey bumps covering the rocks that hurt your feet when you're…
These feisty crustaceans are the ‘Houdinis’ of the rocky shore, evading capture as soon as disturbed!
The brown shrimp blends perfectly with its seabed home and is found all around the coasts of the UK.
Goose barnacles often wash up on our shores attached to flotsam after big storms.
Gardening and wildlife have a direct link explored in a new report from the Horticultural Trades Association