Links – relevant to Mounts Bay
Marine Conservation Zones (MCZ)
Marine Conservation Zones (MCZs) are areas in English, Welsh and Northern Irish territorial and offshore waters designated to protect important habitats and species such as cold-water coral reefs which thrive in the UK’s deeper waters, sedimentary seabed habitats vital for a range of marine processes and other species.
Coastal Monitoring
Coastal Monitoring Programme of England
This link takes you to the Regional Coastal Monitoring Programme, South West Area. This is a national monitoring programme which collects and analyses coastal data, including beach topography, Lidar, Bathymetry, Hydrodynamics and Aerial Photography to aid planning of beach maintenance and coastal defence schemes.
Includes data from real-time wave / wind buoy data in and around Mounts Bay
Geology
Marine Wildlife Safaris and activities
Mounts Bay Conservation Zone
Mounts Bay MCZ, announced on 17 January 2016, is an inshore site covering an area of almost 12 km².
Mounts Bay Maritime Survey
Mounts Bay Maritime Survey
See document(s): Cornwall and Isles of Scilly Maritime Archaeology Society – CISMAS
An account of a project to “identify surviving historic wreck material within Mounts Bay (and) record and survey the wrecks identified”.
Plastic Free & Sustainable Penzance
Plastic Free Penzance was set up as part of ‘Plastic Free Communities’, a Surfers Against Sewage initiative and aims to minimise Penzance’s contribution to the plastic crisis.
Sustainable Penzance are “working to bring together our community to protect the environment and create a more sustainable way of living, working and doing business“.
