The Hants and Wight Wildlife Trust have launched its new Solent film, which celebrates the diversity of our local marine wildlife and features interviews with its Marine Champions.
The UK government has committed to identify and designate pilot Highly Protected Marine Areas (HPMAs) in English waters by the end of 2022. Defra, JNCC, Natural England, Cefas, the Marine Management Organisation and the Association of Inshore Fisheries and Conservation Authorities will work together, with stakeholders, to identify potential pilot sites.
We have just published the fiftieth edition of Solent News. This bi annual round up of what is happening in the Solent is sent out widely and freely to those working and living in the Solent.
Hundreds of people have helped raise enough money to save a ferry service after it announced it had run out of money due to Covid restrictions. More than £60,000 has been raised to rescue Hythe Ferry, which links the Waterside and Southampton.
The fifth anniversary of the Green Halo Partnership was marked with a virtual conference: Towards 2030, which explored how individuals and organisations working in and around the New Forest National Pak can tackle the climate and nature emergencies.
PTEC is a 30MW commercial tidal stream project located off the south coast of the Isle of Wight. A planning application for the onshore elements of the project will be submitted to the Isle of Wight Council in the coming months. If consent is granted, onshore construction work is anticipated to commence in 2023. The project team would like your views.
Hampshire & Isle of Wight Wildlife Trust have launched a partnership with Boskalis Westminster Ltd to undertake a seagrass restoration project within the Solent, starting with an important research and development phase.
The Environment Agency is working in partnership with New Forest District Council, Hampshire County Council, Natural England and JBA Consulting to explore a sustainable future regarding the risk from flooding and coastal erosion between Hurst Spit and Lymington. Watch an introductory video on the Project.
The country’s first oyster restoration hatchery has opened in the Solent. The hatchery, opened by the University of Portsmouth and Blue Marine Foundation (BLUE), will provide a million native oysters a year for a restoration project that could transform the Solent’s water quality and increase its marine biodiversity.
The proposal was submitted by the Solent LEP on behalf of a coalition of businesses, local authorities and other partner organisations in response to a competitive process designed to establish a number of UK Freeports.
Part of the wall of a castle, originally built in Tudor times by Henry VIII, has collapsed. A section of Hurst Castle's east wing, near Milford-on-Sea, Lymington has fallen.
Nearly £100K of funding has been awarded to scientists to help ensure that Tudor warship the Mary Rose and other historic ships at Portsmouth Historic Dockyard - as well as related artefacts such as boots, cannons and gold coins - are protected for years to come.
The Solent Forum are delighted to announce that the Chair, Peter Barham, was awarded an MBE in the New Year’s honours for services to the maritime sector.
The Environment Agency and University of Portsmouth have published an excellent new report 'Valuing the Solent Marine Sites Habitats and Species: A Natural Capital Study of Benthic Ecosystem Services and how they Contribute to Water Quality Regulation.'
ABPmer has published a report that reviews the status of Wightlink Ltd.’s saltmarsh enhancement and mitigation project at Lymington. This enhancement project was completed nearly eight years ago. It involved the use of maintenance dredge sediment from the Lymington marinas and harbour approaches to ‘recharge’ an eroding area of saltmarsh (Boiler Marsh) to the east of the Lymington River entrance.
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