Cheshire West and Chester Council has voted to take motion for cleaner, more healthy rivers and seas — turning into the newest UK council to go the Movement for the Ocean.
BSAC launched the Movement for the Ocean initiative on the Go Diving Present in March 2025, which inspires members to contact their native councillors and go a movement to decide to cleaner waters.
Debbie Powell, BSAC Head of Neighborhood contacted her native council in Cheshire following the Movement for the Ocean course of. She obtained a optimistic response from her native councillor, who even invited her to talk at a Council assembly on 17 July in entrance of greater than 60 councillors of all events.
Councillors had been united in backing the movement — a strong declaration recognising that each group, whether or not coastal or inland, has an element to play in tackling the rising disaster dealing with our blue areas.
Talking after the vote, Debbie stated:
I’ve seen each the wonders and the harm to our waterways — however you don’t need to be a diver or swimmer to care. Our rivers and seas belong to everybody, and this movement offers communities like ours an actual approach to make a distinction. It’s good to see my native council stepping up.
Debbie was supported on the day by members of native department Chester Sub-Aqua Membership, who attended so as to add additional weight to the difficulty and as an indication that native residents will get up for clear waterways within the locations the place we stay and play.
About Movement for the Ocean
The Movement for the Ocean is a nationwide initiative developed by ocean specialists to present councils a transparent, sensible path to supporting marine restoration — from slicing air pollution and enhancing water high quality to creating ocean well being a part of native planning.
With this vote, Cheshire West and Chester (CWAC) turns into the thirty fifth UK council to go the movement, becoming a member of a rising variety of native authorities, each inland and coastal, dedicated to taking native motion on a world concern.
Emily Cunningham MBE, marine biologist and co-founder of the Movement for the Ocean initiative, praised the Council’s management:
This can be a good end result. It exhibits that communities in Cheshire recognise simply how related all of us are to the ocean — even miles from the coast. Inland areas ship water downstream, and that water carries litter, chemical substances and vitamins that impression marine life and coastal economies. CWAC has proven actual environmental management.
The Movement for the Ocean is already creating actual change throughout England, by supporting higher wastewater insurance policies, to encouraging native schooling and citizen science initiatives, and has captured worldwide curiosity when not too long ago introduced on the UN Ocean Convention in Good.
Now, CWAC joins these communities in working with residents, companions and others to place the movement into motion.
Anybody can become involved — diver, snorkeller, and even family and friends!
BSAC is encouraging individuals throughout the UK to participate, whether or not you are a diver, swimmer, paddleboarder, canine walker — or simply somebody who needs cleaner rivers and seas. You need not go on a march, or make a speech, or write a dissertation… you merely must contact your native councillor and ask them to suggest a movement for the ocean.
Become involved, add your voice and assist make actual change in our communities to guard the surroundings we love.
To learn the way you or your council can take motion, go to:
