Narwhal Expeditions

20/05/2022

We often get asked by communities and individuals interested in marine conservation “where do we start”. The answer we give is to get out and explore the marine habitats around you. To show we follow our own advice, yesterday we found a previously unrecorded seagrass species, dwarf eelgrass (Zostera noltei), right under our noses in Loch Craignish. This is an intertidal species of seagrass and forms a priority habitat for conservation.

05/04/2022

A massive thank you to who have provided with a fleet of their eco paddle boards. They will enable our team to be as environmentally minded as possible while we undertake our ocean restoration activities, bringing seagrass and endangered native species back to Scottish seas. As an member, all purchases from go to supporting ocean restoration charities. Oh, and it all comes without even a sniff of plastic packaging 😀 Thank you Sea Lion 💙🌱🏄🏻‍♀️

11/01/2022

Scotland bringing the breeze and the backdrop 🤩

30/11/2021

We had fun this summer documenting the conservation work of with filmmaker Lewis Jeffries. The film premiered today and it is a wonderfully uplifting and inspiring watch, the perfect antidote if you are feeling tired and jaded by all of the negative climate news right now - enjoy https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=tid73gH2ibA

22/11/2021

Seagrass planting by paddle board. 🌱💙 Eric fine tuning some of the final bags of seagrass seeds, soon to be a flourishing 1/4ha of seagrass in Loch Craignish 🤞

05/11/2021

How much will sea levels rise in our lifetime? Nearly as much as longest board! Lizzierose art’s thought provoking installation in Loch Craignish demonstrates just how much of what we take for granted right now will be lost beneath the waves for the next generation.

05/10/2021

A nice commute to work today to talk all things biodiversity monitoring and marine habitat restoration with the wonderful community in Knoydart.

22/08/2021

21/08/2021

31/01/2021

Some land based today with the Great British Bird Watch What did you see?

10/12/2020

16/11/2020

During Narwhal’s voyages, one of the common themes that we heard when we spoke with local coastal communities was their concern over how much their coastal habitats are changing. Coastal communities inherently know that change is happening to our oceans, but without baseline measurements it is impossible to quantify these changes and take the right action to provide effective protection. A way is clearly needed to formalise this innate understanding of the coast. Enabling it to be collected and presented in a rigorous and validated way that can accepted by internationally recognised databases and hence used by scientists and decision makers. NatureScot’s Community-led Marine Biodiversity Monitoring Handbook aims to do just this. Narwhal and the Ocean Discovery Project partnered with NatureScot as one of the pilot projects for this initiative. This meant that not only were we integral in developing a data flow system that will support and facilitate other coastal community groups in having their own data sets accepted at the standards required, but that we were the first project to have our own habitat data validated and accepted under MEDIN standards and published on the DASHH database and NMPI Maps, making our data available to researchers and policy makers world wide.

Check out all of our ocean-findings https://www.narwhalexpeditions.com/expeditionreports