About Us
Danny Renton
CEO
Tiziana Tedoldi
General Manager
Philip Price
Communications and Outreach Officer
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Will Goudy
Operations Manager
Ailsa McLellan
North West Coordinator
Alex Thomson
Science & Survey Officer
Seawilding is a Scottish charity based in Loch Craignish, Argyll and is the UK’s first community-based seagrass and oyster restoration project. Our Seawilding core team, pictured above, combines a host of essential ingredients - marine biology, coastal surveying, project management, fundraising, photography, film-making and environmental sciences. Most importantly we owe our success to our community volunteers who contribute so much to our native oyster and seagrass restoration efforts. Seawilding is restoring 1 million native oysters and planting hectares of seagrass in Loch Craignish, initiating similar restoration projects around the Scottish coastline and training other UK marine conservation groups in best practise restoration methodologies.
Seawilding is an advocate for better protection of the seabed and the ocean generally. Only 5% of Scottish waters are protected from the most damaging forms of fishing – bottom trawling and dredging – and Seawilding campaigns for a ban of these destructive practises in inshore waters, and for eco-system scale restoration to bring back lost biodiversity, sustainable fishing jobs and hope for the ocean.
Seawilding's charitable aims are:
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To advance the environmental protection and improvement of Scottish coastal waters by developing and delivering projects to restore degraded marine habitats and species, including native oysters, seagrass and other priority marine features around coastal shorelines
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To advance the education of marine science, marine conservation and best-practice marine habitat restoration by creating citizen science and research opportunities with schools, community groups, organisations and academic partners
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To advance the environmental protection and improvement of Scottish coastal waters by campaigning for sustainable and responsible use of marine resources
Seawildlings
Our youth group Seawildlings is open to all primary and high school aged children who live on the Craignish Peninsula. Seawildlings aims to give children an opportunity to enjoy healthy time outdoors while learning about, and celebrating, our wonderful marine and coastal environment. The children help protect our Loch and coastline, while learning new skills, building aspirations and gaining self-confidence. We hope to inspire a passion for the sea and marine conservation from an early age, and perhaps we will be creating the marine biologists and environmentalists of the future! Seawildlings is led by Bea and supported by a wonderful team - pictured below. They work with a wonderfully diverse group of workshop leaders - marine biologists, artists, foragers, willow weavers, clay workers and musicians, just to name a few!
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Ardfern: Seawilding HQ
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Kilchoan estate, Loch Melfort: Native Oyster Restoration Project and Community training
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Oban: The Scottish Association for Marine Science, Project Partner
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CAOLAS Lochaline: Native Oyster Restoration Project and Community training
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Knoydart: Community training
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Seawilding, Loch Broom, Wester Ross: Native Oyster Restoration project
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Ardfern Yacht Centre: Oyster Hoister nursery and project partner
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Craignish Primary School: School engagement programme
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Kilmartin Primary School: School engagement programme
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Achahoish Primary School: School engagement programme
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Lochgilphead Cubs: School engagement programme
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Furnace Primary School: School engagement programme
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Rhunahaorine Primary School: School engagement programme
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Heart of Argyll Wildlife Organisation: Project Partner
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Lochgair: Native Oyster Restoration Partner
Our Network
Community-led marine habit restoration powering ahead!
Seawilding is actively rolling-out our best-practise, low-cost marine habitat restoration methodologies to other community groups across Scotland. We are proud to be working with these communities, empowering them to manage their own inshore marine environments sustainably, while addressing biodiversity-loss, sequestering carbon and creating Green Jobs.
