Sea Trust Wales is a marine conservation charity based in Goodwick, Pembrokeshire.
We are working to better understand and help protect local marine wildlife, and to raise awareness in the local community. We aim to inspire people to care about their local marine wildlife by opening their eyes to the stunning diversity of wildlife around the Welsh coast and engaging them in its protection. Our environmental research, education, and conservation work, summed up in our motto CARE (Conservation, Awareness, Research, and Education), underpins all we do.
Our current projects:
FINtastic Fauna & Porpoise Photo-ID – conducting regular cetacean surveys and using images of individual porpoises to study their population and ecology, training volunteers to become citizen scientists and record marine wildlife around the Pembrokeshire coast, to learn more about Wales' marine life. Video - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pWl9jBHQCu8&t=3s
Recycle Môr – collecting end-of-the-life fishing gear to be recycled into useful everyday products such as sunglasses and litter pickers by Waterhaul. We have so far collected around 7 tonnes of fishing gear – otherwise bound for landfill or the ocean. Video - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B2xBwXHcWiU&t=8s
Inspire Môr – working to connect people with Pembrokeshire’s marine world, allowing people of all ages to learn about the Ocean, and inspiring people to care about the marine environment. We run a free Marine Biology Club for people aged 10-16. We also visit local Primary and Secondary schools to teach about marine wildlife and conservation and allow them to experience our wildlife close up with the use of our VR headsets. Video - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ORVfS7UziFc&t=19s
Pwll y Môr - an exciting citizen science project using rockpool photomosaic images to monitor Pembrokeshire’s rocky shore. The project will directly engage the public with our diverse rocky shore habitat and allow for virtual rock pooling when the weather is bad. Website - https://pwllymor.com/
