If you'd told me a few years ago that I'd end up leading a communications team for a marine conservation charity, I'd have laughed. Not because I don't care about the ocean. Quite the opposite. Anyone who knows me knows that being Cornish makes up approximately 87% of my personality. I won't apologise for that. Cornwall is my home, its coastline is part of who I am, and protecting it matters deeply to me. What would have surprised me is the conservation bit. I don't come from

With the weather remaining chilly and storms increasing in frequency, it’s hard to imagine that anyone would want to spend their winter in the UK. But for many winter migrant seabirds, this is exactly their goal! Amazingly, many of the birds that are currently flocking to Falmouth’s shoreline have undertaken journeys of thousands of miles from their Arctic summer homes to enjoy the comparatively warmer climes of Falmouth’s coast. Birds may travel for hundreds of miles to enj

European octopus ( Octopus vulgaris ), the species on everyone’s lips this year (metaphorically and literally). Photo credit: Lewis Jefferies This year Cornwall’s shores (and front-pages) have been awash with tentacles. Divers have delighted in surprise encounters, while fishers report mixed fortunes - some landing record catches, whilst others face empty pots. With World Octopus Day having just passed (8th Oct), what better time to discuss our eight-armed neighbours and why

Rocky shores are a marine wonderland. Existing in the ‘intertidal zone’, they are in turn submerged and exposed by the ebbing tide, and...