Save Our Bays
Working with communities to preserve and protect
inshore marine and coastal habitats
Save Our Bays
Working with communities to preserve and protect
inshore marine and coastal habitats
Save Our Bays is a Community Interest Company which supports coastal communities. Through information sharing and engagement with community groups, schools and individuals, we work to protect our precious nearshore and coastal environments from industrial exploitation and over-fishing.
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, biotechnology, are very possibly the beginnings of a solution to mitigate against the impacts of climate change, these projects need to be handled carefully. From the outset, before a marine licence is applied for, it is crucial that developers seek social license to operate.
Companies that engage with communities in the first instance, learn from community expertise and local knowledge, and grow their business alongside local people with collaboration and transparency, will likely gain a marine licence without issue. Norfolk Seaweed and Câr-y-Mor in Pembrokeshire are examples of seaweed aquaculture installations in the UK that have worked alongside communities to achieve social license. Câr-y-Mor pledges to 'improve the coastal environment and the well-being of the local community’.
We fully support these excellent projects, and the many others, particularly in Scotland, which trade in a similar way.
There are other companies in the sector who are less concerned with sustainability and the environment, and more focussed on maximising profit. There have been examples recently of a seaweed company which has, on several occasions, not carried out a full and transparent community and stakeholder consultation, in order to avoid scrutiny and opposition. This has, understandably, caused outcry.
We strongly suggest that emerging mariculture and geoengineering companies, particularly in the nascent seaweed sector, call on the mix of skills, expertise, generosity and commitment available within coastal communities, to boost their licence applications and give their businesses the best start.
Please see WWF and SAMS 'Social License for UK Seaweed Farming' HERE,
“We have the choice to use the gift of our life to make the world a better place–or not to bother.” Jane Goodall
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We now have a
SHOP!
If you need a new t-shirt or hoodie for the summer, have a look at what we've got. We've kept prices low, and everything in there is created from organic, recyclable, ocean friendly materials, the inks are water based, and the factories are wind powered. Any profits will help to save our bays and protect wildlife.
Some of our amazing wildlife neighbours...
Atlantic Puffins
Common Dolphin
Humpback Whale
Grey Seal
HAPPY ANNIVERSARY TO THE RNLI!
1824 -2024
200 years selflessly saving lives at sea. Save Our Bays wishes you a safe and successful next 200.
We need your help! If you have time to volunteer and share your skills, please get in touch.
We need your help! If you have time to volunteer and share your skills, please get in touch.
We need your help! If you have time to volunteer and share your skills, please get in touch.
We need your help! If you have time to volunteer and share your skills, please get in touch.
We need your help! If you have time to volunteer and share your skills, please get in touch.
We need your help! If you have time to volunteer and share your skills, please get in touch.
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Save Our Bays Community Interest Company
Unit 2d, Stratton View Business Park, Bude, Cornwall, England, EX23 9NR
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