Capturing Our Coast and the importance of the Yorkshire coast

摘要

We believe that the responsibility for protecting our seas, beaches, rocky shores and wonderful marine biodiversity belongs to all of us and that we should strive to ensure their protection for future generations. From 2010-2013 a project named the Big Sea Survey, funded by the Heritage Lottery Fund, was undertaken to monitor and record coastal marine life along the North-East coast with help from citizen scientists.