Save Our Bays
Working with coastal communities to protect and conserve
our precious marine environments
Save Our Bays
Working with coastal communities to protect and conserve
our precious marine environments
Working with coastal communities to protect and conserve
our precious marine environments
Working with coastal communities to protect and conserve
our precious marine environments
Aqua Botanika, 'sister' company to Biome Algae (Port Quin, Gerrans Bay, St Austell), are planning to construct an enormous seaweed farm just around the point from Combe Martin. Their application is based on the application for Port Quin which is currently being contested by the local community and by primary advisors to the Marine Management Organisation (the licensors). The Gerrans Bay application was withdrawn after a community fight-back, and St Austell collapsed after a major falling out between partners. These companies have not submitted applications worthy of licence and should not be permitted to commercialise the nearshore of the South West. YOU MUST ACT NOW TO STOP THE DESTRUCTION OF OUR COAST!
We have spent nearly 10 months fighting against these large scale farms, and we have left no stone unturned in our investigations. We have done the kind of work the applicants have neglected to do. Click the button immediately below to object to this enormous development.
Save Our Bays is a Community Interest Company which supports coastal communities and the marine and coastal environment. Through information sharing and engagement with community groups, schools and individuals, we are committed to the conservation and protection of our precious nearshore and coastal habitats.
Through lobbying, press engagement and collaboration with other marine advocates, we help to raise awareness of threats to coastal areas, and support campaigns to preserve marine ecosystems.
Whilst the ‘Blue Economy’, in the form of seaweed aquaculture and other mariculture installations, carbon capture ventures, Ocean Alkalinity Enhancement, desalination and biotechnology, are very possibly the beginnings of a solution to mitigate the impacts of climate change, these projects need to be handled carefully, with coastal communities, small boat fisheries and the environment at the forefront of proposals..
From the outset, before a marine licence is applied for, it is crucial that developers seek Social License to Operate.
We strongly suggest that emerging mariculture and coastal development companies call on the mix of skills, expertise, generosity and commitment to the conservation of marine habitats available within coastal communities, to boost their licence applications and to give their businesses the strongest start.
COMMUNITY COLLABORATION CONSERVATION
“We have the choice to use the gift of our life to make the world a better place–or not to bother.” Jane Goodall
Please see WWF and SAMS 'Social License for UK Seaweed Farming' HERE,
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