The annual symposium of vertebrate palaeontology and comparative anatomy came to Lyme Regis in mid September. The town was chosen in this year because this is the bicentenary of the discovery by Mary and Joseph Anning of the first ever fossil ichthyosaur skull to come to the attention of science. 118 experts from 18 different…
The Big Jurassic Classroom is all about bringing the Olympic values and the Jurassic Coast together to celebrate the 2012 Games, especially as the sailing events are taking place on our World Heritage Site next summer! We are offering two hour free teacher training sessions to all Dorset and East Devon schools over the next…
Visitors, and locals alike, are being encouraged to think of travel as being more than ‘A to B’ in an initiative to highlight the South West’s most scenic journeys. The ‘Spectacular Journeys’ initiative, being carried out on behalf of the South West Tourism Alliance, aims to highlight travel as a key attraction of the region,…
As we are approaching the 10th anniversary of the World Heritage Site, we want to get together evidence of changes to the area that have happened as a result of the World Heritage Site designation, and for once we don’t mean fossils or cliffs! If you have seen, or are a business or organisation that…
As one of the first World Heritage Sites in the UK to use Twitter as a tool for raising awareness, the experiment is proving successful, and quite fun. Inspired by Ben Dames, the National Trust’s West Dorset Roving Reporter – you may have seen him in his Jurassic Coastin’ campervan – we use twitter to…
Do you have a commitment to the Jurassic Coast World Heritage Site and your local area, and do you want to help make a difference? We would like to recruit a range of individuals from the communities of the Jurassic Coast and hinterland, who can be just what the title implies; Ambassadors for the World…
We are thrilled to announce that thanks to Arts Council England and our other Steering Group partners, that we are embarking on an eighteen month project to continue to develop the Jurassic Coast Arts Programme, and to provide a cultural legacy to plans around the Olympic and Paralympic sailing and windsurfing events in 2012. We will…
The Jurassic Coast Pathfinder project is coming to an end after all the work undertaken over the last 16 months. The Jurassic Coast Steering Group have written the final report back to Defra which summarises the project activities and makes recommendations back to central government in relation to coastal communities adapting to coastal change in…
July 2011 saw the opening of a new interpretation centre on the Jurassic Coast at Sidmouth. The Arches Interpretation centre have been devegloped in renovated seafront arches and provide an introduction to the Jurassic Coast, the town of Sidmouth and its attractions, the surrounding countryside and the South West Coast Path. The unmanned, free to…