Sometimes a title is just too good not to use and Wild Mersey was the name of a superb article by Chris Baines celebrating the return of wildlife to the Mersey Estuary. This appeared in SourceNW magazine in 2009 which highlighted some of the achievements of the Mersey Basin Campaign. The campaign began in 1985 and lasted for 25 years, bringing together industry, communities and government in a huge effort to clean up the Mersey. To give an idea of how bad things once were, P. D. Jones, in an article on the water quality and fisheries of the estuary, suggested that: Everyone living Continue Reading
Seeing seals in England, Scotland and Wales
Seals are some of the largest and most entrancing mammals to see around the UK coastline. The two main types are the Atlantic grey seal and the smaller harbour or common seal. Favoured locations include the west coast of Wales, northeast England and much of the coast of Scotland, including the Firth of Forth, Western Isles and Ythan Estuary near Aberdeen. There are also small populations at the Cumbria Wildlife Trust reserve at South Walney in Cumbria and in the Dee Estuary between Wales and the Wirral. Grey seals are the more common and adult males can grow to more than two metres and Continue Reading
