08 Apr 2025
SKRP hosts 'Kelp Summit 2025' alongside the launch of a new report
The Sussex Kelp Recovery Project (SKRP) hosted the UK’s first national conference on kelp ecology alongside the launch of a new report by SKRP Partner, Blue Marine Foundation on the barriers to kelp recovery in UK waters.
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18 Mar 2025
Four years along our 'Journey of Rewilding' the Sussex seabed
Sussex Kelp Recovery Project (SKRP) is marking the four-year anniversary of the project and the introduction of the Sussex Nearshore Trawling Byelaw.
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03 Feb 2025
SKRP supports The Big Swim 2025
SKRP is supporting The Big Swim 2025 in Brighton on Saturday 8th March, to celebrate International Women's Day.
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31 Dec 2024
Shell-ebrating a fantastic year of rewilding Sussex Seas!
2024 has been full steam ahead for Sussex Kelp Recovery Project (SKRP) in our mission to recover kelp and other essential fish habitats in Sussex!
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28 Nov 2024
A Marine Superhero!
Congratulations to Ruby Stothard, the winner of the David Streeter Wildlife Champion Award for 2024
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22 May 2024
Glimmers of hope for recovery of Sussex sea forests
The Sussex Kelp Recovery Project (SKRP), the UK’s largest marine rewilding project, celebrates three years of seabed protection in Sussex today on the International Day of Biological Diversity.
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20 Mar 2024
Celebrating three years of the Sussex Kelp Recovery Project
We are celebrating three years of seabed protection and of the Sussex Kelp Recovery Project.
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14 Sep 2023
Our Sea Forest
Eric Smith tells his first-hand story of the loss of the Sussex kelp beds, and how a trawling ban has meant the forests are starting to recover.
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17 Mar 2023
A story of hope - recovery of Sussex underwater forests
In Sussex, just a few hundred metres from busy coastal towns like Shoreham-by Sea, Worthing and Bognor Regis, a story of hope is emerging, as historic kelp forests lost for decades are beginning to flourish, demonstrating the ocean’s ability to recover when it’s protected from destructive fishing activity such as trawling.
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