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Torridge District Council has launched a public consultation to inform its strategy for the Torridge Estuary. The consultation will be open until Wednesday 28 May 2025.
The next Taw Torridge Forum Estuary meeting will take place at 7.00pm Monday 28th April in the Beechfield Centre, Beechfield Road, Fremington EX31 3DD. The agenda is available here. The previous meeting minutes can be downloaded from here.
The West Country Rivers Trust are conducting an estuarine citizen science feasibility study as CEFAS Coastal Health aims to review existing estuarine citizen science schemes and learn from them to propose our own methodology. In consultation with project partners CEFAS and the Natural History Museum, the Westcountry Rivers Trust will recommend water quality metrics suitable for citizen science in estuarine environments, with the aim to monitor baseline health of coastal habitats, organisms and the relevant stressors.
Read more: Community Survey for Scoping Study - Estuarine CSI
The North Devon UNESCO Biosphere is running another round of (FREE) Marine Wildlife Awareness Accreditation Scheme training at the end of March.
MWAAS: In-person training in Appledore Tickets, Thu, Mar 20, 2025 at 1:00 PM | Eventbrite
MWAAS: In person training In Ilfracombe Tickets, Fri, Mar 21, 2025 at 9:00 AM | Eventbrite
Handy for kayak or SUP instructors who take client groups out on the estuary, or RIB operators who deploy out along the North Devon Coast. The MWAAS accreditation is always useful when taking groups out on the water; plenty of wildlife knowledge in your back pocket to enrich sessions for interested clients, but also some operational bits on how to minimise disturbance when paddling nearby seals or seabirds.