Local Beach Surveys

Yorkshire Wildlife Trust takes part in the Marine Conservation Society's (MCS) Adopt A Beach and Beachwatch schemes. These schemes involve registering a beach and then conducting regular beach cleans. During the clean ups volunteers' record the type and quantity of litter collected.

The two MCS schemes involve the same survey techniques 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 Society and is used to help in the fight against marine litter. The campaign highlights locally and nationally the causes and most common types of marine litter and how our every day decisions can help reduce this terrible form of marine pollution.

Yorkshire Willdlife Trust has three registered beaches:
  1. Spurn National Nature Reserve 
  2. Flamborough North Landing
  3. Flamborough South Landing

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Litter Survey at Spurn - (Photograph - Paul Carter)