ABOUT MSEP

We are a not-for profit organisation established in 2000, whose work is centred around the understanding, conservation and promotion of the estuary’s natural and historical environments.

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Riverside Soundings Project

In May we will be launching our Riverside Soundings project, to tie in with this year's wider Estuary Festival. Supported by Countryside Properties 'Rochester Riverside Community Fund' . The project's aim is to create an audio portrait of the River Medway and the surrounding environment

The Value of Restored UK Seas – World Wildlife Fund Report

Published by the World Wildlife Fund (WWF), in partnership with Sky Ocean Rescue, the report explores the benefits of restoring UK seas back to health, both in tackling the growing climate emergency and increasing its economic contribution to the UK as an island nation. You

Oak Processionary Moth – Volunteers required

As part of a wider Kent Countryside Management Partnerships project funded by the Forestry Commission, we're looking for volunteers to carry out surveys in their local patch across the county for the Oak processionary moth. Accidentally imported into the UK, it was first recorded in

One Good Tern…

The estuary is rightfully known and protected for its impressive birdlife, but it's important that we given them the space they need to ensure that this continues to remain the case. That's why we're supporting the RSPB's work to raise awareness of and help protect

The Coastal Based Approach

Based upon the Government's successful Catchment Based Approach (CaBA), launched in 2010 to embed collaborative working at a river catchment scale, the Coastal Based Approach (CoBA) will seek to build upon this approach to address issues facing the country's coast. You can find more about

What is Coastal Squeeze?

As part of the Environment Agency's Flood and Coastal Erosion Risk Management Research Programme, the 'What is Coastal Squeeze?' project looked at how better define and understand what causes coastal squeeze and assess the best way to manage its past and future impacts. The Government

Water companies seek abstraction information

Do you have your own water source?  If so, South East Water (on behalf of the Water Resources South East Group*) would like to hear from you as the group prepares its next Water Resources Management Plan for the region. The combined effects of population growth

Funding success for seasalter levels

Defra's recent Green Recovery Challenge Fund has awarded the RSPB, in partnership with Canterbury City Council and Kent Wildlife Trust £1,884,900 for landscape wide restoration works at Seasalter Levels, Wraik Hill Local Nature Reserve (near Whitstable) and Blean Woods. In keeping with the Government's

Trees for Farms – Dig Days

Trees for Farms is a local initiative based in Swale, whose aim is to "plant native trees to create farm hedgerows as a means of taking positive action to help tackle the challenges of climate change and loss of biodiversity". This winter they're looking