Our President was specially commended for the MCS U.K. ‘Young Ocean Optimist of the Year’ award, and now finds herself featured in the MCS members’ magazine for her work in starting our society 💙🌊🐋

It means the absolute WORLD to us to even have been nominated for this award, let alone to have won it! It’s so so special to us, and we have so much love for our Stirling family 💙

Dumyat has been climbed and cleaned! 🎉💪🏻

Sweetie wrappers and the clear sealed bags of sweets inside Easter eggs can aren’t accepted in household recycling collections. Check @TerraCycleUK’s website for a list of drop off locations for their Confectionery Recycling Programme. #EasterRecycling

The Scottish marine environment is in trouble. We need our government to take urgent action to implement and fully enforce marine protection measures. Come find out what political candidates have to say about marine conservation tonight ⬇️

#OceanOptimism for your Tuesday: we’re proud to announce we’ve raised £625 total (just over £200 each) for Marine Conservation Society, BDMLR and Forth Marine Mammals! 💙 Thank you to everyone for your support & special thanks to all of our guest speakers, you’re all stars 🐋🌊 + Our Seas

17.65kg (1,467 individual items) cleared from University of Stirling campus on Saturday! Includes 596 cigarette butts alone, with 977 total plastic/polystyrene items lifted. If you take it with you, take it away. Our campus is beautiful, let’s make sure it stays that way.

An important thread about the state of Scottish seas put together by our president ⬇️

We did it all despite a pandemic, unable to host society meetings in person as normal. Cannot begin to describe how proud we are of the little family we’ve built at UoS MCS & we’ll forever be grateful to all those who have worked with us to get here 💙 #OceanOptimism

‘37% of our Scottish seas have MPA designation’ Watch this video. This is still being allowed to happen in our ‘protected’ areas. Does this look like protection to you? Scottish Government Nicola Sturgeon Mairi Gougeon you have to reinstate #TheLimit, urgently.

Our President will be joining the UK Youth for Nature panel this June 8th! Don’t miss out! 💙

Just a note to anyone who was planning to attend h UoS Marine Conservation Society cleanup tomorrow: following 60+ signups & difficulty acquiring transport for the group, we’ve had to postpone to next Sunday (26th) Still 10:30am-12:30pm at Kinneil however ☺️

Combat the Jan blues with the first Scottish Marine Conservation Society beach clean & litter survey of the year. Celebrate blue spaces & meet some new people. 🌊BIG BLUE MONDAY BEACH CLEAN Mon 17th Jan 1.30pm, Troon South Beach. Open to all, spread the word & register here: mcsuk.org/beach-cleans/b…

Could you take a few moments to share your views on the issues impacting Scottish seas & your level of connection to them?

We want to give a warm welcome to all of the incoming freshers joining UoS in September! If you’re looking for a friendly society that cares about marine life, you’ll find a home with us! We have exciting things planned for the upcoming semester, and can’t wait to meet you all🌊

Interested in joining our society? Want to speak to some of our committee members to find out more about who we are and what we do? Then this is for you! We’ll be at the clubs and socs fayre on the 14th September, so come and say hello!💙🌊

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Often I post about my own work or activities but I want to show off some of our fantastic societies. Every day I get blown away by new projects by socs, these pics are just a (tiny) sample of what I came across on my timeline today! UoS Marine Conservation Society Stirling Psychology Soc SUDS 🎭