MCS in the media
MCS is well-known by the media as a trusted source of news and information on marine matters. The degree of coverage given to our major projects and campaigns - sustainable seafood, clean beaches and seas, and protection for sea wildlife - is testament to our clear and focussed communications, all based on sound science.
MCS hit the headlines recently with the latest Beachwatch report revealing the amount of litter found on our beaches, achieving Marine Acts for the UK and specific to Scotland, and calling for urgent measures to save bluefin tuna. Last year, MCS played a pivotal role in the making of the groundbreaking film on overfishing, "The End of The Line", led the "Raising a Stink" campaign together with the Sunday Times, and worked with the BBC Panorama team to make the series’ most-watched episode of last year, “Britain’s Dirty Beaches”.
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Click the image to watch the End of the Line movie, in full, on Babelgum |
Click the image to watch the BBC Panorama documentary "Britain's Dirty Beaches" |
A selection of recent news items and interviews can be viewed here:
Marine reserves proposed for Sark (Channel Television, 24th June 2010)
Living proof that conservation works (The Independent, 15th May 2010) - MCS response to editorial here
Clean Beaches for the summer (BBC1 The One Show, 22nd April 2010
Ditched plastic washing up on UK's beaches (Sky News, 26th March 2010)
Plastic on our beaches has doubled (Daily Mail, 26th March 2010)
Call for bluefin tuna trade ban (Independent, 10th March 2010)
Water firms in legal row over pollution (Sunday Express, 17th January 2010)
Widen choice to save fish stocks, supermarkets told (Guardian, 26th November 2009)
Marine and Coastal Access Act: our coast is now a treasure to share, Nicholas Crane (Daily Telegraph, 14th November 2009)
Why we need marine reserves (Interview: BBC News, 11th November 2009)
Map of proposed marine reserves published (Daily Telegrah, 10th November 2009)
BBC's TV chefs attacked for putting eel on the menu (Guardian, 1st November 2009)
UK's new marine reserves are threatened by legal loophole, Frank Pope (Times, 25th October 2009)
This time the lawyers have my support, Simon Barnes (The Times, 26th September 2009)
Oceans awash with microscopic plastic, scientists say (National Geographic, 16th September 2009)
140 towns trial blanket ban on plastic bags (Daily Mail, 11th September 2009)
One family's 'good beach' legacy (BBC News, 31st August 2009)
What lies beneath: Plastics threat to UK beaches (Independent, 5th July 2009)
Britain no 1 for litter louts, Hugo Rifkind (The Times, 17th June 2009)
Supermarket scraps unsustainable tuna (Telegraph, 9th June 2009)
Elle McPherson joins celebrities fighting for the world's endangered fish (Telegraph, 9th June 2009)
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