Monitoring Learning Protecting

A Community Interest Company monitoring the health of the Southend estuary using actionable evidence.

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Our approach

What we do

Monitoring

Tracking the health of UK estuaries with DNA, microbiology and water quality testing.

Learning

Turning fieldwork into real, accessible data — hard evidence, not anecdote.

Protecting

Sharing our findings and engaging the community to protect local waters.

Why it matters

The estuary on our doorstep

0 Visitors to Southend each year
0 Waterbirds overwinter here
0 Fish species in the tidal Thames
0 Hectares of protected marsh on our coast

Working together

Our partners