Are you ready for Sea Scotland 2025? 🤝 Engage with our delegates, speakers & sponsors 📖 Enjoy the @scotwildlife.bsky.social Words of the Wild exhibition 🚀 Celebrate the launch of the @youth4seas.bsky.social Youth Manifesto for Scotland’s Seas Make sure you grab your ticket! bit.ly/44nKQfm

🚫 Full bottom trawling bans in marine protected areas are the ONLY way to ensure a healthy ocean 🌊 If you agree, the time to use your voice is now: only.one/act/uk-mpa-c... "We MUST seize this opportunity," our director @hugotagholm.bsky.social 🔽 The window to have your say is closing in ⌛

We’re very grateful to @gillianamartin.bsky.social, Climate Action & Energy Secretary, for joining our Community Gathering and speaking with young people about protecting and restoring our seas. Never before has political leadership for our environment and climate been so essential. 📸Rosa Payne

😍ICYMI 😍We're buzzing from our second annual Community Gathering in Glasgow last weekend. So much energy, mutual support and passion for standing up for our seas in that room! 💙 More to follow but in the meantime massive shout to YSCS member Rosa Payne for the wonderful snaps 📸

🪸"The UK is finally waking up to fact that it is no longer politically, publicly or scientifically acceptable to allow [bottom trawling] in the sites we are trying to protect for nature." Our Policy Director Alec digs into the new Scottish MPA measures in our blog 👇 uk.oceana.org/blog/what-sc...

🚨BILLBOARD MESSAGE DEMANDS MSPS ACT NOW TO SAVE NATURE 🚨 A pair of billboards appeared on Edinburgh’s busy Market Street today with an urgent message for Scotland’s MSPs. With 1 in 9 species in Scotland at risk of extinction, MSPs must act now! www.scotlandlovesnature.scot/billboard-me...

Your guide to the Scottish Parliament! Parliament represents us, so we have a right to know what goes on there! See the full version 👉 bit.ly/parliament-jargon

Scotland’s offshore “protections” leave much of our seabed at risk with MPAs still open to trawling damage. More protection = more fish, more jobs, a healthier sea & more resilient coastal communities. This is just 1/2 of the equation, urgent action is needed in Scotland's inshore waters too ❌🌊🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

We're hiring a Youth Advocacy Officer! ✅ Amplify young voices for marine protection ✅ Connect with policymakers & experts ✅ Put youth voices at the heart of decisions 📍 Remote (Scotland) | £30,823 FTE | 18 hrs/wk (0.6FTE) Apply now 👉 environmentjob.co.uk/posts/107163...

UK ocean wildlife faces a myriad of pressures, from the #ClimateCrisis to destructive fishing. Our seas are some of the world’s most heavily fished. Take action with us today to reduce the impact of destructive bottom-trawl fishing on our seabed 2/2 🔽 only.one/act/uk-mpa-c...

The countdown is now ON to this year's Community Gathering in Glasgow! ⏳ With only a few spots left, we thought we'd give you a taste of what some of last year's attendees said about the day 😍 Tickets and costs support at: bit.ly/yscs-gathering25

We welcome the designation of the two new Historic Marine Protected Areas - at Scapa Flow, and the Queen of Sweden wreck site in Shetland. Scotland’s seas are a vital part of our culture, history, and identity. Protecting these sites helps preserve our shared heritage for generations to come. 🌊

Behind every Sea Scotland event is a network of passionate partners. 💬💡 Our heartfelt thanks to @wwfscotland.bsky.social and @youth4seas.bsky.social for support our 2025 hustings and make the event accessible to all! 🌊 Interested in joining us? Check out how to become a sponsor: bit.ly/44c73fl

Meet the YSCS Team! This time we're introducing Jess Shaw! Jess has joined the YSCS team for a paid traineeship, where she'll receive training, mentoring and professional development opportunities. Welcome Jess! 🐳Check out her full blog post: youthforseas.org/blogs/meet-the-team-jess-shaw

We are thrilled to bring back our Making Waves: Sea Scotland Youth Voices events🌊 In partnership with @youth4seas.bsky.social, we will deliver tailored sessions to equip young participants with the skills and confidence to engage in the Sea Scotland 2025 Ocean Hustings. 👇

People from across Scotland will meet their MSPs at Holyrood on Thurs 18 Sept to call for urgent, fair climate action. This is a critical moment, with a new Climate Change Plan is coming, and an election next year. Will you join them? 💚 📝 Sign up: www.stopclimatechaos.scot/campaign/mas...

🌊This autumn, ahead of next year’s election, we will host our first ever Ocean Hustings, in partnership with @youth4seas.bsky.social first-ever👇

Meet our 2025 Project Grant recipients! 👏 Our Youth Ocean Action Fund launched this spring with the aim of breaking down barriers to youth-led marine advocacy and kickstart your ideas Read about our 2025 recipients and their inspiring projects 👉 youthforseas.org/blogs/2025-project-grants

Tickets for this year's Community Gathering are now LIVE! 🔥 📍The Social Hub Glasgow 📅Sat 6th Sept 🙌Young people aged 16-25 💰Tickets from £0 to £10 For details, how to get there, accessibility and other FAQs, see Eventbrite and get your tickets now: bit.ly/yscs-gatheri...

We’re sounding the alarm for seabirds 🚨 The Scottish Government has announced plans for a massive expansion of offshore wind – but there is almost nothing in these plans to protect our vulnerable seabirds from the impacts. 📢 Join us in speaking out: www.rspb.org.uk/scotland/new...

We’ve just published our #OceanWitness report - which documents the condition of Scotland’s inshore seas. Thanks to everyone involved in the surveys, research and analysis at a critical time for our marine environment. Check out the report online 👉 www.openseas.org.uk/ocean-witness/

This week, as a member of the @ourseas-scot.bsky.social coalition, we were at the Scottish Parliament to gather political support for our coastal seas and fisheries.

Our Youth Advocacy Officer, Dr Elizabeth Mills, wrote a powerful blog with a call to action to marine organisations to put young people and ocean literacy at the heart of marine decision-making. Check it out 👇

What a turnout! Thanks to everyone who stood up for nature at the Scottish parliament this afternoon✊ Let's keep the pressure on our leaders to restore our nature! Find out more and sign up for campaign updates at www.scotlandlovesnature.scot #ScotlandLovesNature

Meet this year's Turning the Tide alumni! 🏆 Hailing from inland Shotts, and studying at Stirling, Jaime had some knowledge of marine biology but wanted to develop her understanding of policy and how she could find her voice and get involved! Congrats Jaime! 🌊🐳✊

🌊 Our oceans are vital – for life, for climate, for communities. On #WorldOceanDay, let’s celebrate them and commit to protect and restore them. Photos from my day with @seasavers.bsky.social‬ #OceanJustice #ClimateAction #WorldOceanDay2025 #ScottishGreens

📣Use your voice to speak up for Scotland's seas this World Ocean Day! 🌊 Contribute to the first-ever Youth Manifesto for Scotland's Seas and demand stronger political action for our marine environment. 👉www.youthforseas.org/youth-manifesto #WOD #WOD2025 #ScotlandSeas #YouthVoice

It’s #WorldEnvironmentDay 🌍 But beneath UK seas, a silent crisis unfolds. Thanks to Sir David Attenborough’s “Ocean”, the truth about bottom trawling is out: 🐬 Kills whales & dolphins 🛑 Destroys seafloor 🌫️ Releases carbon This isn’t fishing. It’s destruction. 1/3

BREAKING 📢 The Government's own MPs and many others across parties call for a BAN on destructive bottom-trawl fishing in offshore marine protected areas🪸 This intervention from the Environmental Audit Committee shows that pressure is building 💥💥💥 www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Meet the YSCS Team! Having joined YSCS last year and recently completed Turning the Tide, Isadora is our newest youth trustee on our board and brings a passion for sustainable fisheries management to the team. Welcome Isadora! 🐳Check out her full blog post at: www.youthforseas.org/.../meet-the...

More than 135,000 cleaner fish have died at a Highland salmon farm run by Norwegian-owned Mowi, prompting welfare concerns and a formal complaint. Read the full story: theferret.scot/13500...

👋 Hello Bluesky! We're UK Youth for Nature (UKY4N) the UK's leading youth-led network calling on governments to take urgent action to restore nature. 🌿 We're thrilled to join this platform and connect with fellow nature enthusiasts! Here's what we're about:

"Time and again, we see that you just cannot trust the Scottish salmon farming industry" theferret.scot/fish-...

Launching our new toolkit! 🌊Have you ever wanted to take action for our seas but felt overwhelmed knowing where to start? The Ocean Action Venn is a simple, reflective tool that helps you connect your skills, passions, and the ocean issues that matter most to you. 👉 www.youthforseas.org/toolkits

Applications for our Youth Ocean Action Fund are now CLOSED! Individual Grant apps will reopen for our Summer round once we've processed this round, due by 11th August. Project/Campaign grants will be back in Spring 2026, so plenty of time to formulate YOUR ocean action! 💡🌊

🚨 Exciting Opportunity! We're offering a short-term traineeship for a young person from a BAME background to help develop skills and gain experience in marine policy & advocacy. This is a great step toward a career in the marine sector🌊 Apply here ->www.youthforseas.org/blogs/ysc-trainee

Less than a week to go until we're joined by @radapandeva.bsky.social for an inspiring session! Still time to register for a ticket 🎟 tinyurl.com/5y9kdmbc

The most objected to planning application in Scottish history has been approved by Scot Gov officials. Ignoring hundreds of thousands of us. Help us stop this madness at Loch Lomond and protect the local area! E-action linked in the image description👇

18 separate incidents of cruelty. Fish beaten to death. Salmon left to suffocate for fun. This isn’t an isolated case - it’s systemic abuse on a certified organic farm. The RSPCA acted. Supermarkets pulled products. But where is the Scottish Government?

If you have a story to tell about Scotland's freshwater and marine wildlife, you really otter submit it to our Words of the Wild nature writing competition. Find out more: buff.ly/lxxTACN In association with the Scottish International Storytelling Festival.

A sea-rious success for marine restoration. 🦪 With help from volunteers, #RestorationForth has deployed 10,000 more European flat oysters into the Forth - now over 40,000 in total! Oysters are true power players in the fight against biodiversity loss, creating thriving habitats for marine life. 💙

🌊 Sea Scotland 2025🌊 This autumn, ahead of next year’s election, we will host our first ever Ocean Hustings, in partnership with @youth4seas.bsky.social Discuss plans to support our marine environment and coastal communities with Scottish political parties: www.seascotland.scot/sea-scotland...

What’s your #OceanSuperpower? 🌊 Join us for an interactive session with @radapandeva.bsky.social - thalassophile, young ocean advocate, and marine science student from Bulgaria—as she shares guides you through finding your unique ocean superpower!

Meet this year's Turning the Tide alumni! 🏆 We're so proud of this year's cohort. Argyll-native Claudia has thrown herself into the course, developed her skills and created an Ocean Action Venn to figure out her role in marine advocacy. Congrats Claudia! Can't wait to see what you do next🦪🛥️

Great opportunity with our friends at @sccscot.bsky.social to get involved with a really exciting project!

Who's excited to see this film?! 😍

Animal Equality UK says the Scottish Government's lax rules are letting big salmon companies off the hook - while wild fish, ecosystems, and animal welfare suffer.

I am concerned about the potential for overfishing because of the number of creels used off the Fife coast, and I asked the Scottish Government to consider limiting the numbers.

Jargon busters is back! This time it's marine litter - from microplastics, sewage and fishing gear to deposit return schemes, @scottishgovernment.bsky.social's Marine Litter Strategy and orgs to look out for! Check out the recent Beachwatch data from @mcsuk.bsky.social at: bit.ly/beachwatch24

We're hosting two online Q&A sessions with the YSCS team to support you with your Youth Ocean Action Fund applications! 🌊 Weds 7th May 6-7pm 🌊 Tues 13th May 1-2pm Find out more about the fund, whether your idea is eligible and how to apply. Sign up at bit.ly/yoaf-online