Environment & Ethics
Our company values: Community, Wildlife & the Environment.
Here at Seacoast Safaris we are proud to be one of the Greenest Boat Operators in the UK. We care about the wildlife that we take you out to see and we want the way we run our business to reflect that! Our core company values are at the heart of everything we do and our ethical and environmental concerns sit right alongside profit in our list of priorities!
So how do we do it?
We provide sustainable, green and ethically sound boat trips by taking the company’s profit and investing it in things like Carbon Offsetting (Climate Impact), renewal fuels and energies, and sustainable, recycled products.
Every year we focus our efforts (and green budget) on something new; a previous project involved running our passenger boats on HVO (Hydrogenated Vegetable Oil), a renewable diesel fuel derived from 100% renewable waste streams that reduced our CO2 emissions by up to 90%, we joined Surfers Against Sewage’s Ocean Network, donating to projects that help keep our waterways clean (find out more here > The Ocean Network) and we've donated to Marine Conservation Society this year gearing up for a big beach clean at the end of the season during the Great British Beach Clean Week!
Now lets talk Wildlife, as a company we are proudly WISE accredited. The WISE scheme is about watching wildlife safely and responsibly and is aimed at wildlife cruise operators, dive boats, sea kayakers, stand up paddle boarders and wild swimmers. The training that they provide works to promote responsible wildlife-watching, through training and raising awareness and we think this is really important. Read more about the scheme here > Wise Scheme
This year we also joined the 'Predator Free Accreditation Scheme' with Biosecurity For Life meaning we are trained in keeping our boats free of predators (like mice and rats) that can cause devastation on seabird islands! Read more about this amazing initiative here > Biosecurity For Life
We take part in National Whale & Dolphin Watch every year, a citizen science event with 'watches' and 'surveys' going on from land and sea all around the country recording what marine mammals are spotted. This event helps give a snapshot of what is going on in our waters and the data is used to influence government policies and changes in marine protection. Ask our crew when the next one is and how you can take part! Read more here > National Whale & Dolphin Watch
Not only are we continuously working to lessen our impact on the environment we also invest in our local community. Every year at Christmas we take a chunk of our profits and donate it to projects supporting those who aren’t as fortunate as ourselves. The organisations have ranged from food banks, to scout and guide groups, charities and even our local nursery! We also work hard to secure local jobs; all our boat maintenance and boat building is done using local contractors. We support our local lifeboat station too, RNLI Beaumaris, offering free places for the volunteers on our Powerboat Level 2 courses at our RYA training school. People matter to us.
Our team are also pretty special...We have Marine Biologists, divers and a Nautical Scientist on the crew. Most of our staff are on the lifeboat at RNLI Beaumaris and others volunteer their time for conservation groups including British Divers Marine Life Rescue ,RSPB and North Wales Wildlfe Trust . What they don't know about the sea and it's inhabitants isn't worth knowing!
We hope you'll agree we're a boat company with a bit of a difference and we're proud to stand out from the crowd!
If you want to see our projects in action keep your eye on our socials!