When volunteers help conservation

Science is difficult and must be done by professionals. Or must it? When Marine Conservation Society (MCS) was offered the chance to work with a volunteer yachtsman, Mr Chris Cooling, aboard his ocean-going yacht (Allegra), we grabbed the chance with both hands. In marine conservation, budgets aren’t at the levels required to map every single…

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Surveying Cornish Seagrass and Maerl

High summer diving in Cornwall doesn’t come much more iconic than a trip out of Porthkerris on the Lizard Peninsula, transferring your dive kit over the beach and up the gangplank onto the boat

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