www.cwtstrandings.

org

CWT Marine Strandings Network

Recording Stranded Marine
life since 1992
Managed by Stella Turk for 11 years
Jan and Leff Loverdge for 10 years
Handed over to CWT in 2013

Run a 24 hour strandings hotline

Record all marine life strandings
Record and photograph Strandings cetacean, seal, shark and turtle
Work with partners locally and nationally
8 training courses held since 2008
131 call out volunteers and 11 hotline coordinators
Over 5,500 records of 172 species
with 36,395 (79GB) images

Discharge of Polyisobutene (PIB)

10th April 2013
SW of Eddystone Lighthouse, 20 miles south of Looe

Many Commercial Uses

PIB is extremely hazardous to seabirds
- become covered in the sticky substance which
leads to immobilisation, hyperthermia, starvation
and eventually death.
Many forms of PIB - polyisobutylene,
polybutene, polyisobutene and polybutylene also
derivatives such as PIBSA and PIBSI

CWT Marine Strandings Role

A total of 2447
Birds
The MAN Hotline had
179 from Feb to April

168 in calls April alone

Over 4,200 birds

were recorded by in the UK and Channel
Islands
CWT MSN, RSPB, RSPCA, Devon Wildlife Trust, BTO,
Environment Agency and local councils
as well as local groups, volunteers and members of
the public

With combined efforts

21st October
International Maritime Organisation announced a

Global ban on the discharge of PIB

Collated data from across
south England and the channel

Powerful campaigns by
conservation organisations on
a national and international
level

Petitions like Save our Birds

Public pressure on local and
national government

Massive media coverage

THANK YOU
to all the volunteers, colleagues and partners of the
Marine Strandings Network

Niki Clear
Marine Data Officer

HOTLINE: 0354 201 2626

www.cwtstrandings.org
strandings@cornwallwildlifetrust.org.uk