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Volunteer Week 2025 - Your Stories
During Volunteers' Week 2025, we’re celebrating the incredible impact of our dedicated volunteers. Join me to meet four of the hundreds of incredible volunteers who give their time so…
My year as Trainee Nature Reserves Assistant at Bog Meadows
Twenty-five-year-old Aaron Kelly has spent the last year as a trainee nature reserves assistant at Bog Meadows Nature Reserve. The traineeship enabled Aaron to work alongside our team and develop…
Jessica's Bog Meadows Trainee Diary - Spring 2024
Find out more about Jessica, our Bog Meadows Trainee Nature Reserves Assistant, and what exciting work she’s been getting up to so far to help bring people closer to nature, as well as some of the…
Jessica's Bog Meadows Trainee Diary - Summer 2024
Find out what Jessica, our Trainee Nature Reserves Assistant at Bog Meadows Nature Reserve, has been up to this summer. From exciting efforts to connect people with nature in West Belfast to the…
Jessica's Final Bog Meadows Trainee Diary
As her 18-month traineeship draws to a close, Jessica Halpin reflects on her journey as a Nature Reserves Assistant at Bog Meadows Nature Reserve. From memorable experiences to personal highlights…
Stork's-bill
The bill-shaped seed pods of Common Stork's-bill explode when ripe, sending the seeds flying! This low-growing plant has pretty pink flowers and can be seen on grasslands and coastal sands.…
Charities urge stronger protection for Irish Sea and Welsh Coast as landmark reports reveal amount of carbon stored in seabed habitats for the first time
A landmark report published today by a coalition of nature charities provides the first estimate of the carbon stored in seabed habitats in the Irish Sea and along the Welsh Coast.
C..C..C..C..Co-Coasting in Portrush
Now that Santa has come and gone, Christmas dinner is a distant memory, and the New Year is no longer quite so new, it’s back to work for the Living Seas Trainees! From 10 - 12 January we…
Black Guillemot Workshop
Living Seas Trainees, Emma and Patrick, along with Dave and Shona, went down to Bangor Marina recently to learn all about Black Guillemots and how to survey and monitor them.
Coastal Foraging – Fine Dining at Groomsport
If you asked me to recount any global news stories that happened on Thursday 3 August 2017 I wouldn’t be able to answer. Personally though, it marked a milestone for many Living Seas staff and…
Bring on Festival Season – Rathlin Maritime Festival
On Saturday the 27 May, Living Seas trainees Patrick and Emma were up bright and early to hit the road. We were headed for Ballycastle to set up our Living Seas stall for the Rathlin Maritime…