🦪 Marine rewilding. Last week we shared the story of how, even in protected waters, nature is in decline.

If you missed the films, we’ve now brought them together into one story.
▶️ Watch the full film here: youtu.be/q3JNNnV5xr0
#MarineRewilding
#NativeOysters

🦪 How can we bring back native oysters? 
In the final film of our oyster series, David Smyth, Highlands Rewilding’s Marine Rewilding Lead, shares how we can help native oysters return to Loch Sween, where recent years have seen a dramatic decline in their population and habitat.
#MarineRewilding

Where have all the oysters gone?    — Highlands Rewilding Highlands Rewilding have uncovered an alarming decline in native oyster numbers within the Loch Sween Marine Protected Area (MPA). Marine biologist and oyster expert Dr David Smyth expected to find 10...

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#MarineRewilding #NativeOysters #LochSween #MPA #BiodiversityCrisis #ConservationScience #NatureRecovery

Where have all the oysters gone?    — Highlands Rewilding Highlands Rewilding have uncovered an alarming decline in native oyster numbers within the Loch Sween Marine Protected Area (MPA). Marine biologist and oyster expert Dr David Smyth expected to find 10...

Native oysters, once abundant here, face functional extinction following a steep decline in their population within this Marine Protected Area.

So what’s gone wrong? And more importantly, what can be done to reverse the trend?
#MarineRewilding #NativeOysters #EcosystemRestoration

Group of bluefin tuna. Image credits: Guido Montaldo / Shutterstock

Why are bluefin tuna essential to our oceans? 🌊

Bluefin tuna aren’t just fast and agile – they play an important role in British marine ecosystems. (1/4)

#BluefinTuna #MarineRewilding

Rewilding key species: bluefin tuna, a predator that's making a comeback. Image credits: Jonathan Clay.

Meet the #BluefinTuna 🐟, one of the largest and fastest fish in the world.

This agile predator is making a comeback in British waters after decades of absence. (1/4)

#MarineRewilding #RewildingBritain

#RewildingBritain has been pushing to remove the barriers blocking community actions to rewild our seas, and we will continue to support action in this sense – it is the key to enabling #marinerewilding at a national scale. (3/3)

Seagrass, Isles of Scilly, Cornwall, UK. Credit: Michiel Vos / Ocean Image Bank

#RewildingWin: Big milestone for seagrass recovery in Plymouth 🌱

After five years of tireless effort, England's largest #seagrass restoration project has restored eight hectares of seagrass meadows – from the Isles of Scilly to Essex.

(1/3)
#marinerewilding #rewildingbritain

Image d'illustration, photo d'un littoral.

[New paper]

▶️ Thinking #MarineRewilding: adapting a terrestrial notion to the marine realm. Definition, practices and theories of marine #Rewilding

🖊️ Ariane Cornerier

#️⃣ #NatureProtection, #EcoFrontier, #Nature

🔗 journals.openedition.org/cybergeo/41153