We have several exciting updates in this edition of the #RestorationForth newsletter as we report high survivability rates across our oyster restoration sites & welcome the first oysters to the Forth Marine Hatchery! Read on to find out more 👉🏻 restorationforth.substack.com/p/restoratio...

A trip out to Tyninghame with a group from North Berwick Youth Project, one of my favourite places to be especially on a day like today 🌞🍂

So enjoying spotting & learning more about fungi this autumn, a fascinating kingdom of which there are over 15,000 species in the UK alone! 🍄 #fungi

Please add your voice to those calling for First Minister John Swinney & SSE to #StopBerwickBank 👇🏻

A glorious trip out on the Forth today with our fab volunteers restoring a further 6,000 oysters to their new home, bringing our total up to 46,000! 🤩🦪 @mcsuk.bsky.social @heriotwattuni.bsky.social @wwfscotland.bsky.social #RestorationForth

Great to have @catgodders.bsky.social on our @mcsuk.bsky.social #YouthOceanNetwork call last night chatting all about community engagement and #RestorationForth! Want to learn more? 👇🌊 🌱 www.mcsuk.org/ocean-emerge... 🦪 www.wwf.org.uk/what-we-do/p... 🌱 www.ssc.education.ed.ac.uk/BSL/marine/o...

Looking forward to this one! Join us at Lind & Lime to hear about the humble oyster & why we are working hard to restore reefs around Scotland 🦪 Grab your free ticket 👇🏻 lindlimegin.rezdy.com/733627/oyste...

On 30 October MSPs will debate the Natural Environment Bill - a vital opportunity to ensure that Scotland sets legally binding nature recovery targets. Help inspire MSPs to support meaningful action for nature by sharing these 40 powerful messages: www.scotlandlovesnature.scot/dear-msp-nat...

What a brilliant way to spend a sunny morning at North Berwick, clearing the beach of 6.5kg of litter with local volunteers & staff from @seabirdcentre.bsky.social & Maths Week Scotland 🌞🌊 my final clean of the #GreatBritishBeachClean2025 @mcsuk.bsky.social 😁

Seagrass mapping at Tyninghame on a beautifully clear & crisp morning...a wonderful way to welcome the Autumn Equinox 🍂🌱 #RestorationForth @mcsuk.bsky.social @seabirdcentre.bsky.social @wwfscotland.bsky.social

It's the start of the #GreatBritishBeachClean! Delighted to join colleagues & volunteers at our flagship Scotland clean at Cramond this morning, clearing 13kg of litter from the beach 🌊🏖️ find upcoming cleans 👉🏻 www.mcsuk.org/what-you-can...

Thanks to everyone who joined us at the mass lobby in Edinburgh today! Hundreds of people came together to speak up for nature and climate at Scottish Parliament. If you couldn't make it, you can still make your voice heard: www.rspb.org.uk/scotland/new...

Brilliant to be back on the Forth today! This time for BRUV (baited remote underwater video) surveys with the #RestorationForth team & our fab volunteers 🌊🦪🤩 @mcsuk.bsky.social @wwfscotland.bsky.social

Great to welcome so many people to the Restoration Forth Snorkel Trail Safari today🤿 It's always a treat to discover what lies beneath the waves around North Berwick (and even spot gannets diving nearby!)🦀🌱🐟 📷©️Jamie McDermaid

Take a moment to explore an Orcadian #seagrass meadow & meet the creatures that call it home! 🦀 #Orkney is a special place for #RestorationForth… the seagrass meadows highlight the #MarineLife that this super species can support, and the local community always gives the team a very warm welcome. 💚

Thanks to those who joined #RestorationForth for a Coastal BioBlitz in Burntisland! A brilliant variety of #MarineLife was recorded, including many fish, invertebrates, seaweeds, butterflies, moths & birds. 🔎 A reminder to take a closer look when in nature - you might be surprised by what you see!

Postcards from the beautiful Orkney Isles. 💌 The #RestorationForth team had a brilliant time in #Orkney. It's always a joy to explore Orkney's thriving #seagrass meadows. The team loved spending time catching up with people in Orkney about the work being done to restore these vital habitats. 🌱

Spent the weekend enjoying the many sites of Orkney ☀️ wonderful cliff walks, sea swims, bird life & of course archaeology 🌊

It's been a spectacular week on Orkney running community snorkel sessions, attending the EMEC open day for #StromnessShoppingWeek & supporting the team with seagrass monitoring for #RestorationForth 🌊🌱🌞 @mcsuk.bsky.social @seabirdcentre.bsky.social

Great 2 days dodging the summer showers & monitoring our intertidal oyster sites with our wonderful #RestorationForth volunteers 🌊🦪 @mcsuk.bsky.social @wwfscotland.bsky.social @heriotwattuni.bsky.social

Back home after a fantastic time in sunny Scarborough for the #ReMeMaRe conference 🌞 It was great to present on #RestorationForth oyster citizen science (an exciting & nerve-wracking experience!) & hear about all the amazing restoration work happening across the UK 🌊 @mcsuk.bsky.social

Is your organisation or community restoring coastal environments? Restoration Forth has launched a practical new resource featuring: 🌊 How-to videos 🌊 Key learnings 🌊 Community involvement tips All inspired by seagrass & oyster restoration in the Forth! Dive in: www.wwf.org.uk/what-we-do/p...

VERY excited for our week on Orkney in July! Amongst other events, we're running 3 community snorkel sessions on the island, sign up 👉🏻 www.eventbrite.com/cc/restorati... 🌊🦀🌱

Oh hi there, this Atlantic Yellow-Nosed Albatross chick wants you to have a wonderful day. #WorldAlbatrossDay

Delighted & excited to be speaking about #RestorationForth at @coastalfutures.bsky.social ReMeMaRe conference in July! Come along & learn about restoration efforts across the UK 🌊🌱🦪 @mcsuk.bsky.social

Great to attend @scotlink.bsky.social Stand Up for Nature demo today at Scottish Parliament! Calling for immediate action to restore Scotland's nature @mcsuk.bsky.social 🦉🐳🌱🐝🐙

Stand Up for Nature! Scotland’s nature is struggling, but the Natural Environment Bill could be a turning point. We need to show MSPs that nature matters to Scotland’s people. 📆Thursday 12 June 🕒12:30-2pm 📍Scottish parliament Join the demo: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/stand-up-f...

Wilder Seas: eight steps to restore our ocean 🌊 Our seas are struggling – and so are the coastal communities that depend on them. But there’s hope. Our new Wilder Seas report, produced with the @mcsuk.bsky.social, lays out a powerful blueprint for restoring marine ecosystems. 🧵1/2

A win for nature! #RestorationForth and volunteers have been surveying oysters introduced to the Forth last autumn. The results show an incredible 85% survival rate and average growth of 4.5mm. 👏 This is great news for marine life - restored oyster beds could double biodiversity in 10 years! 🐟

The rain stayed away for our seagrass monitoring session as part of @seabirdcentre.bsky.social Marine Fest this morning! Nice to find patches of seagrass with plenty of associated biodiversity 🌱☀️

What another great milestone to celebrate 🥳 so proud to be part of this project & thank you to all our supporters over the years 🦪🌱

Great session with staff from PPL who joined us for a beach clean & intro to Marine Conservation Society at Longniddry Bents 🌊 & a treat to catch up with colleagues Calum & Dan 🌊☀️

We were back on the water this week deploying European flat oysters to the Firth of Forth & what a day for it ☀️ Great to be joined by community members from ELREC too #RestorationForth

The countdown is on for Marine Fest 2025! From 23 - 27 May, we'll celebrate Scotland's incredible marine wildlife with a packed programme of walks, talks, science, family fun, wildlife ID, and exclusive Puffin Express trips.

A great first day of oyster biosecurity for #RestorationForth with 3,000 oysters cleaned & ready for restoration! & brilliant to be joined by some of my @mcsuk.bsky.social colleagues 😍🦪🌊

64,300 more seagrass seeds planted! 🌱 Thanks to local communities who have shown up year after year for these mighty, tiny seeds of hope! 💪 Let’s hear from the volunteers who helped harvest these very seeds and have planted them into the Forth. ⬇️ #RestorationForth

A beautiful day on Fidra tackling invasive tree mallow for @seabirdcentre.bsky.social #SOSpuffin project ☀️ so thrilled to have been able to use my @mcsuk.bsky.social volunteer day to help out with this brilliant project 🌊

Join the Restoration Forth team on Thursday 3 April in our Learning Hub for an informative evening with Ethan Ross, a PhD student studying seagrass ecology at the University of Aberdeen. Sign up here: www.seabird.org/events/resto... 📷©️L Boyle

A stunning morning at North Queensferry training up some more volunteers on our Oyster Observer survey ☀️🦪 find out how you can get involved www.mcsuk.org/ocean-emerge...

A huge thank you to our #RestorationForth volunteers who helped us plant our next round of seagrass seeds at Drum Sands and Burntisland. It was great to be out in the sun celebrating Seagrass Awareness Month by taking part in active restoration. 📷©️E Annand, E Williams

Seagrass seed planting complete ✅ a wonderful final session in Fife, thank you to all our volunteers who've supported the planting this year, we continue to learn so much about seagrass restoration in Scotland 🌱 #RestorationForth

Fantastic couple of days planting seagrass seeds with our brilliant volunteers in full Scottish sunshine ☀️🌱 #RestorationForth

Enjoyed my morning, out seagrass seed planting with #RestorationForth at Drum Sands @mcsuk.bsky.social @wwfscotland.bsky.social Here's hoping the seeds are able to germinate and increase the seagrass meadow there.

Spaces are flying for our 1st oyster biosecurity session of the year! Join us at Heriot-Watt campus on Thursday 3rd April to process oysters & help us reach our 40,000 oyster target! 🦪 Sign up 👉🏻 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/restoratio...

It was great to be joined by our #RestorationForth volunteers on Saturday for a seagrass monitoring session at Belhaven Bay, to celebrate #WorldSeagrassDay🌱 We celebrated in style with some seagrass-themed cupcakes and a hot drink to warm up afterwards🍰 📷©️Eleri Williams

Oyster check-in day! Brilliant to see some of our restored oysters already providing habitat for a myriad of marine species 🦪🪸 we'll be returning soon to check growth & survival with our #RestorationForth volunteers

Looking for schools & educators in Scotland! The Ocean-Friendly Schools Award is all about empowering young people to take action for our ocean 🪸🌊🦀 find out how you can get involved 👉🏻 www.mcsuk.org/what-you-can...

Excited to be back with our training events this spring, join us to learn about oyster citizen science on 20th March at North Queensferry 🦪 sign up 👉🏻 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/oyster-cit...

The long-awaited Natural Environment Bill has now been introduced! 🎉 #RestorationForth has shown that local communities are committed to restoring nature & the Scottish Government needs to enable them. The Bill must be followed with ambitious targets for nature & funding to turn plans into action.

Great listening to the Stronger Shores online talk tonight, hearing about the fantastic work of the Wild Oyster Project in the Tyne & Wear 🌊🦪 looking forward to the update on the 2nd oyster reef!