This web site provides a home for each of these, links to other marine conservation initiatives and information on how to become involved in meaningful marine conservation action in south and west Wales.

Highly Protected Marine Conservation Zones in Wales

Following the introduction of the 2009 Marine & Coastal Access Act, Skomer Marine Nature Reserve is dues to be redesignated as a Marine Conservation Zone.  We believe it should become  a highly protected MCZ.

So too do -

Mark Carwardine - award-winning environmental writer,  columnist, photographer and broadcaster, and active supporter of  conservation of the marine environment and endangered species.

Professor Callum Roberts, Professor of Marine Conservation at York University and author of “The Unnatural History of the Sea”.

Iolo Williams, BBC Wales (Iolo’s Special Reserves, the Natural History of Wales, Iolo’s Welsh Safari, Not in my Nature) pictured signing the Skomer HMPR campaign petition.

Liz Bonnin, wild animal biologist and BBC TV presenter Bang Goes the Theory & Country Tracks.

A petition of 7500 names was presented to Jane Davidson, Welsh Minister for the Environment, on 24 November 2009, but please do add your support here if you haven’t already done so, and also by voting for Skomer MNR on the MCS Your Seas Your Voice website (see below) and by writing in support during the Welsh Assembly Government Marine Conservation Zone consultations – watch this page for details.  Very many thanks to everyone who has expressed their support so far.

YOUR SEAS – YOUR VOICE!

The Marine Conservation Society are collecting votes for new marine conservation zones through the Your Seas Your Voice website.  Please visit it and vote for Skomer MNR – and also for anywhere else you think is deserving of protection.