In 2013, the 284km² Blackwater, Crouch, Roach, and Colne Estuaries Marine Conservation Zone was designated to recover native oyster populations and native oyster beds. A protected 2km² Blackwater Restoration Box was created as a No Take Zone for the Essex …
Raising awareness about the benefits of Nature Based Solutions and the bioremediation potential of oysters is one of the main goals of RemediOS project.At the beginning of April, RemediOS organised a 3-day series of dissemination talks in schools and high …
A new data layer to help support the native oyster restoration site selection around the English coast has been launched, the Environment Agency announced today (World Oceans Day 8 June). Developed by academics from the University of Exeter and the …
The Wild Oysters Project is passionate about educating and inspiring the next generation of marine stewards. We have used the expertise of the ZSL and BLUE education teams to create a learning programme for a range of students, with materials …
The Outreach Working Group had an interesting April-Meeting with Dominic McAfee from Australia, giving insights in the socio-ecological restoration of Australia´s lost reefs. Taking the opportunity of the meeting, the Outreach Working Group discussed new meeting structures and other group …
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In the AquaVitae project (www.aquavitaeprojec.eu), partners are working on protocol development for sea based seed collection and spatting pond production of oyster seed (in Europe primarily directed towards Ostrea edulis seed). The project has developed a very short survey to get some …
We are happy to announce the next online meeting of the NORA Outreach Group taking place online on April 19th at 11 am CET. This time, Dominic McAfee will present insights into the outreach work of the oyster research projects from Southern …
Ocean Decade Laboratories A Healthy and Resilient Ocean If you missed the workshop, you can see the recorded version here: https://youtu.be/UQhJOEAPssU 10th of March, 2–4pm CET The UN Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development gains momentum. From 9–11 March 2022, the …
The next online meeting of the NORA Outreach Working Group will take place on February 15th at 10am CET/9am GMT. Celine Gamble will present the education programme developed within the Wild Oyster Project. The ZSL and BLUE education teams created …
The first meeting of the NORA Outreach Group Meeting in 2022 will be fully interactive for all participants: Let’s play how to restore oysters using an online tool! The meeting will take place on Tuesday, January 18th, at 10 am CET/ …
The NORA site selection working group has been working with University of Edinburgh Master’s student, Anna Hughes, for over a year to develop a comprehensive Site Selection Checklist for European native oyster restoration. Thanks to the collaboration and expert contributions of …
The supply of native European oysters continues to be a bottleneck in expanding and scaling up restoration efforts. The NORA production working group have had a series of informative and open discussions to identify issues relating to the production and …
The product of more than two years work, collating the efforts of more than forty scientists and restoration practitioners across Europe, the latest restoration guidelines to be jointly produced by NORA and the Native Oyster Network – UK and Ireland …
A surprising number of native oysters (Ostrea edulis) have been found in the western part of the Port of Rotterdam. This is the conclusion of a survey by Bureau Waardenburg, Wageningen Marine Research and Sas Consultancy, financially supported by the …
NORA 4 will now take place online! Registration deadline is extended to November 15th 2021read more…
The NORA Site Selection Working Group is delighted to invite participants to join Brecht Stechele of the University of Ghent at 10.30-11.30CEST/9.30-10.30BST on Wednesday 27th October to learn more about how the UNITED project (Grant Agreement no 862915) are developing a model for …
The NORA Production Working Group are holding an informal meeting for O. edulis seed growers and those who would like to be informed about the production. The meeting will provide a platform for exchanging information about the available products (e.g. qualitatively: spat-on-shell, …
The NORA Outreach Group is back from summer break and happy to announce the next meeting on Tuesday, 21st of September, 3 pm CEST/2 pm BST online. Lilly Allen from the University of Edinburgh will be presenting her Edinburgh based …
NORA is delighted to support the UN Decade on Restoration through its ongoing activities. Together, the NORA community and all in the #GenerationRestoration will increase the public understanding and the political will to restore nature where it has been degraded …
The NORA Outreach Working Group is excited to be launching a series of downloadable fun activities for kids to coincide with the launch of the UN Decade on Restoration #GenerationRestoration. Visit the Outreach Resources page to download informative colouring pages and wordsearches …
The NORA Site Selection Working Group have been developing a list of universally important factors to be considered during site selection for European native oyster habitat restoration projects. Led by Anna Hughes (University of Edinburgh) and Philine zu Ermgassen (NORA …
As of June 2, 2021, an oyster reef in the Dutch Voordelta is officially protected against damage by fishery. Such is decided by the Minister of Agriculture, Nature and Food Quality, following commitment expressed by her to the Dutch parliament. …
The third NORA Outreach group meeting of this year will take place online on Tuesday June 22th at 10 am CET/ 9 am GMT. In this meeting, Homère Alves Monteiro from the Technical University of Denmark (DTU) will present material developed …
NORA and the Native Oyster Network- UK and Ireland have been partnering to develop a Guidelines for monitoring native oyster restoration projects in Europe. Universal and consistent monitoring of restoration efforts across Europe would yield a suite of benefits. As …
The NORA Monitoring Working Group has been working with the Native Oyster Network UK and Ireland to develop guidelines for monitoring European native oyster restoration projects. With common metrics, it is hoped that lessons can be more effectively learned across …
The NORA Outreach group is happy to announce the second meeting of 2021 on Tuesday April 20th at 10 am CET / 9 am GMT online. The topic of this meeting will be the development of education materials for schools, using the …
NORA was delighted to welcome 65 experts and interested participants to the online NORA Genetics Workshop on 25th February 2021. The workshop was chaired by Pierre Boudry of Ifremer and an overview of current and planned research on Ostrea edulis of relevance to …
The 20th International Conference on Shellfish Restoration (ICSR), will be taking place 27th – 30th April 2021 in beautiful Nelson Bay, New South Wales, Australia. With shellfish restoration efforts and research growing globally each year, this conference will provide an exciting opportunity to …
The NORA Advisory Board and the NORA 4 Organising Committee recognise the value in, and demand for, an in-person conference to facilitate learning and the exchange of ideas, as well as network building within the NORA community. For this reason, we …
NORA Advisory Board Member and NORA 3 keynote speaker Pierre Boudry is organizing a pan-European workshop on native oyster genetics in the context of native oyster restoration. The workshop will take place online on Thursday 25th February from 9.30-13.00 CET (8.30-12.00 …
The NORA Production Working Group met for an oyster production industry/oyster restoration cross cutting workshop on December 4th 2020. Thirty-one experts discussed areas of communication that could be improved between the two groups and communally explored ways to overcome barrier of …
In October 2020, the mud blister worm Polydora websteri was observed for the first time in Sweden (genetically verified), in a natural Pacific oyster bed (Crassostrea gigas) close to Lysekil on the Swedish west coast. The worm is a known invader, originating …
The need for increased dialogue and understanding between oyster suppliers and oyster restoration practitioners is a common theme at NORA meetings. The Secretariat are therefore pleased to share the following interview with Raimund Weber of the Orkney Shellfish Hatchery. The …
Pete Malinowski, Executive Director and Co-Founder of the Billion Oyster Project will be speaking with the NORA Outreach Working Group at 3pm CET / 2pm GMT on Tuesday 16th February. The Billion Oyster project is considered to be pioneering and inspiring in …
In 2020, ZSL, the University of Portsmouth and the Native Oyster Network called on the UK public to get creative and submit their best images of the native oyster in its natural environment. The Native Oyster is cryptic and rare. Add …
The special issue can be accessed at onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/10990755/2020/30/11 In little more than six weeks the UN Decade on Ecosystem Restorationwill launch, bringing a sharp focus on ecosystem restoration and ‘mainstreaming’ it into policy and planning. Published this week is a landmark Special …
NORA 3 Online was an action-packed event, featuring the launch of two new reports; The European Guidelines on Biosecurity in Native Oyster Restoration and the European Native Oyster Habitat Restoration Handbook- UK and Ireland, the launch of the NORA expert database and Native Oyster …
A key role of the NORA network is to provide opportunities for networking and knowledge exchange. Given the Covid-19 crisis, opportunities to achieve this face-to-face have become limited. The NORA Secretariat identified the potential positive role an on-line database, which …
Native oyster restoration seeks to reverse through human activity, the damage sustained by oyster reefs over the past few centuries. This positive activity, which sees native oysters and their habitat returned to waters where they are currently absent or have …
