What you can do to help Marine Wildlife

Out on the beach
Take some time out and discover your local marine life. Why not take a trip to your local coastline and discover what's around you. Go for a walk, run a net in sea water to see what you catch, attend a Wildlife Trusts Sea Life event. Discover what's out there and why it's important, discover its value to you.

Alternatively, enjoy your local marine life from the comfort of your own home. Why not watch a documentary or read a book, make some cuttlefish puppets or paint a seascape. Tell us what beasties you have found, write us a blog.

At home
Making changes to your everyday lifestyle can reduce your personal impact on our environment. Use environmentally friendly reusable bags to stop seals and turtles eating stray plastic ones thinking that they are jellyfish. Avoid putting toxic chemicals into the drains. Reduce, reuse and recycle your rubbish and watch what you flush. Every year hundreds of thousands of used cotton buds and wet wipes end up on our beaches after being flushed down the toilet; did you know that wet wipes unlike loo roll aren't biodegradable?

Dinner
Try where possible to avoid eating fish that were caught in trawling or dredging activities and plump instead for things that say line caught, organically farmed, sustainably fished and do not be afraid to ask when you are choosing what to buy. For more information check out WWF's top tips.

To find out more about the Wildlife Trusts Marine conservation work visit the
Our Living Seas and Save our Seas websites

To keep up to date on volunteering in the Irish sea find us on facebook: Wildlife Trust Irish sea volunteers