We are currently supporting the North Sea Living Seas Programme by adopting a Petition Fish in the Egleton visitor centre.
Petition Fish is The Wildlife Trusts’ new campaign to put pressure on the UK, Scottish and Welsh Governments to create Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) – sanctuaries for our sea life.
2012 should see the UK’s first network of Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) established under the Marine Act (2009). However, there are already signs that the proposed network will not adequately protect wildlife and some of our most important marine wildlife sites could even be missed off altogether.
The Wildlife Trusts are calling on the Government to deliver Marine Protected Areas that are:
- in the right place – where nature conservation is required;
- support recovery from past decline – not just maintenance of their current, sometimes damaged condition, and
- managed well – with adequate regulation and controls.
Read more about the campaign
The UK’s sea life is amazing – from colourful reefs to rare seahorses, vast seal colonies and migrating turtles and whales – but we need your help to ensure it gets the best possible protection.
Add your voice and sign our petition by visiting this link.
Alternatively, you can sign the petition at the Egleton visitor centre, and add your scale to our “fish”.