Local Beach Surveys

Yorkshire Wildlife Trust are now undertaking the Marine Conservation Society's (MCS) Adopt A Beach and Beachwatch schemes. These schemes involve registering a beach in which to conduct regular beach cleans at. During a beach clean the type and quantity of litter collected is recorded.

The two MCS schemes involve the same survey principles but differ in the fact that:

  • Adopt A Beach - occurs across the seasons with four beach cleans taking place a year.
  • Beachwatch occurs on the third weekend of September only but occurs across all beaches registered across the country!!

Data from all surveys is passed to the Marine Conservation Soicety and used to help campaign to reduce marine litter at the source. It highlights locally and nationally the causes and most common types of marine litter.

 

Yorkshire Willdlife Trust has three registered beaches:

  1. Spurn National Nature Reserve
  2. Flamborough North Landing
  3. Flamborough South Landing

 

To find out more about our beach cleans click below:

 

 

 

 

Litter Survey at Spurn - (Photograph - Paul Carter)