News releases

The Scottish Seabird Centre teamed up with Caledonian Horticulture's the Scottish Coastal Cleanup and Clean Coast Outer Hebrides on Saturday 2 March for a group beach clean in North Berwick. The aim of the event was to tackle the large amount of litter that’s been deposited on North Berwick’s beaches in the winter storms.

Leading conservation charities are calling on Scottish Ministers to reject a renewables development that could wreak unacceptable levels of ecological damage – including to vulnerable seabird populations – off Scotland’s East Coast. The National Trust for Scotland, RSPB Scotland, Scottish Seabird Centre and the Scottish Wildlife Trust have set out their concerns about the siting of the proposed new Berwick Bank Offshore Wind Farm in a letter to Energy, Just Transition and Fair Work Minister, Gillian Martin MSP, as Scottish Ministers prepare to make a final decision on SSE-Renewables’ application for Berwick Bank. Ministers will have the final say on whether the application is approved once they have received the Scottish Government Marine Directorate’s recommendation on the proposal, expected shortly.

The Scottish Seabird Centre continues to receive daily calls from concerned members of the public about significant numbers of dead seabirds (mainly auks including guillemots and razorbills) that have been found washed up along the coastline of the Firth of Forth.

Scottish Seabird Centre statement about dead and injured seabirds