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24 Jun 2025

Celebrating Sussex's kelp story at the premiere of 'Ocean'

Earlier this year, Sussex’s journey to restore its underwater ecosystems took a remarkable step into the spotlight, as part of a new book and accompanying documentary film 'Ocean', led by Sir David Attenborough.

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12 Jun 2025

We spy kelp! SKRP team go beneath the waves at Bognor Rocks

This month the Sussex Kelp Recovery Project team headed out on a field trip to assess the state of the seabed and were lucky enough to see some of the areas of local coastline where beds of seaweed are flourishing...and what a bouquet of colourful life!

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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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