World Eel Day!
May 19th 2023
Did
you know that eels are a critically endangered species?
This May 19th we are supporting World Eel Day, to raise awareness of the eel as a species, from the European Eel, to eels all over the world.
Find out why are eels are important, why they are endangered and how we can protect them.
We welcome your ideas for talks, workshops, discussions and events to share as part of a programme which we will share here and on social media.
To submit an event, please email ruthie@ruthiecollins.co.uk – we will add your event to the programme.
Tag your eel projects and events with #WorldEelDay & #WorldEelDay2023
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There’s lots of ways to get involved. To support World Eel Day, we will be giving out educational packs for schools and families (including an ‘eels and ladders’ style game and copies of illustrated poem The Last Eel on Earth), all over Norfolk, with support from the Broads Authority and the Broads Trust. These will run alongside an EEL FEST Illustration exhibition at the University of Plymouth.
World Eel Day is founded in partnership with author of poem The Last Eel on Earth, Ruthie Collins, written with support from Arts Council England, illustrated in association with the University of Plymouth. the European Eel as a species, illegal eel trafficking.
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Logo illustrated by Bronwen Vaughan. Eel party animation by Jamie England.
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EEL SUITCASE HOMEPAGE
The Sustainable Eel Group
This May 19th we are supporting World Eel Day, to raise awareness of the eel as a species, from the European Eel, to eels all over the world.
Find out why are eels are important, why they are endangered and how we can protect them.
We welcome your ideas for talks, workshops, discussions and events to share as part of a programme which we will share here and on social media.
To submit an event, please email ruthie@ruthiecollins.co.uk – we will add your event to the programme.
Tag your eel projects and events with #WorldEelDay & #WorldEelDay2023
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There’s lots of ways to get involved. To support World Eel Day, we will be giving out educational packs for schools and families (including an ‘eels and ladders’ style game and copies of illustrated poem The Last Eel on Earth), all over Norfolk, with support from the Broads Authority and the Broads Trust. These will run alongside an EEL FEST Illustration exhibition at the University of Plymouth.
World Eel Day is founded in partnership with author of poem The Last Eel on Earth, Ruthie Collins, written with support from Arts Council England, illustrated in association with the University of Plymouth. the European Eel as a species, illegal eel trafficking.
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Logo illustrated by Bronwen Vaughan. Eel party animation by Jamie England.
links
EEL SUITCASE HOMEPAGE
The Sustainable Eel Group
Primary School Children Celebrating EelsNorfolk based King’s Oak Academy are leading an assembly inspired by World Eel Day sharing the phonics friendly version of The Last Eel on Earth, by Ruthie Collins and illustrated Bronwen Vaughan. Children are also creating art using eel inspired colouring in sheets and will be learning about the migration of the eel!
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Competition time!@amybugs is organising #EelFest23
more details here You can win one of these! >>
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Bizarre Beasts
Once a month, Bizarre Beasts hosts Hank Green and Sarah Suta introduce over 200,000 subscribers to a strange new animal and explore its fascinating weirdness. This month, World Eel Day are delighted that they have explored the European eel!
‘The team at Bizarre Beasts is so excited to share the story of the European eel with the world! These fish managed to be both commonplace and highly mysterious for hundreds of years and the new research directly tracking their migration is a delightful new piece to this puzzle. It is hard to protect the unknown, and I hope that this excites more people to learn about these fish and find ways to keep them around for future generations.’ Sarah Suta.
Enjoy this fantastic short 6 minute long documentary from USA based You Tube Channel Bizarre Beasts (link to (423) Bizarre Beasts - YouTube) exploring the European eel, released earlier this month for the first time https://youtu.be/acEIGorImGs
You can also learn about other species of eel with the same team, in this piece made for Nautilus Live (link to https://nautiluslive.org/), the Ocean Exploration Trust, which features the gulper eel and the snipe eel. Gulper eels, also known as pelican eels, are distinguished by their incredible mouths and are one of the most unusual eels in the world. Enjoy the documentary here: https://youtu.be/FS93nCp8lSY
Find their wonderful enamel pin badges of eels here Bizarre Beasts Pin Subscription! – DFTBA
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Leptocephalus by Tara Hughes-Law...
The Eel
Enjoy eel inspired creative writing from young writer Yusuf Barrett based in Morocco. You can read Yusuf’s wonderful writing here
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Eel by MaliOur eel art archive is bulging with new additions Check it out here ...
The Vitruvian Eel by Sam Gilbert...
#Worldeelday2023Eel Colouring-in resources by Mariia Holiashkina. Download here (more coming soon!)
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World Eel Day is very pleased to support this talk on the challenges facing the European Eel for the Canterbury Biodiversity Network hosted on Wednesday 17th May, 2023, at 4pm, Old Sessions House, Longport, Canterbury Christ Church University, from Matthew Hatchwell, former Director of Conservation the Zoological Society London. A recording of the talk will also be available as part of World Eel Day.
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Guillemot Press Eel Festival External link to the Guillemot Press poetry eel fest.
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World Eel Day poster by Fox Vincent....
The Last Eel on Earth at Cley MarshesThis beautiful extract from The Last Eel on Earth, by Ruthie Collins, illustrated by Bronwen Vaughan is installed at Cley Marshes on World Eel Day Friday May 19th, throughout the weekend until close of the day on Sunday 21st. Take a walk and immerse yourself in eel habitat to see an extract from The Last Eel on Earth, by Ruthie Collins, illustrated by Bronwen Vaughan. As you enter the marshes opposite from the visitor centre, turn right and walk towards the pond dipping platform, where you’ll find the piece in situ. It is back again as part of the Natural Wonder poetry trail throughout the Summer holidays. The Last Eel on Earth was written with support from Arts Council England and is exploring the challenges the European eel faces, such as illegal trafficking.
NWT Cley Marshes is Norfolk Wildlife Trust’s oldest and best known nature reserve. You can find out more about how to visit the reserve by checking the website Cley and Salthouse Marshes - Norfolk Wildlife Trust.
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Case of the Missing Eel Poems Created by Norfolk Children and Families at Cley MarshesEnjoy poems and cards created by children and families at Cley Marshes shared on social media as part of World Eel Day. From Betty the Elver Eel, to Slithery the Eel, these are beautiful character inspired poems made with Ruthie Collins as part of Case of the Missing Eel family workshops at the Simon Aspinall Wildlife Education Centre in April. Made with mixed media, recycled packaging and marine inspired realia.
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Minute Earth
You can also learn with USA based MinuteEarth (link to https://www.minuteearth.com/), a series of illustrated stories about science and our awesome planet. World Eel Day is delighted to have one of their videos as part of the programme for 2023.
Enjoy their exploration of Danish scientist Johannes Schmidt’s incredible study in the 1900s, of the migration of the European eel to the Sargasso Sea here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DQVUuBQtb7w ...
MEGAPREDATOR!
We are a Portuguese research team from MARE (Centro de Ciências do Mar e do Ambiente - www.mare-centre.pt) that studies essentially freshwater fish, particularly at the level of the impacts of invasive species (www.fishinvasionslab.org).
This year, in a gastronomic event dedicated to Tagus river fish consumption (Caneiras, Santarém, Portugal: 39.19121957860784, -8.684567031963734) we will present our project MEGAPREDATOR dedicated to the study of the non-native European catfish (Silurus glanis) and also celebrate the World Eel Day by alerting the population to the threat factors of the species (European catfish predation is also one of the factors - fact that we have already proven) and educating for its sustainable harvesting and consumption.
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This beautiful painting has been painted by artist Sue Mobbs especially for World Eel Day, based in Great Yarmouth, Norfolk. Anguilla anguilla (European Eel). While painting Sue has been raising awareness of the European eel’s critically endangered status with regular social media posts. You can find out more about Sue Mobbs at www.suemobbsartstudio.com
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The Ideal Life of an EelBy KODI, NADIA, AMY AND XANTHE
This amazing book is designed with holes in the pages that crocheted eels can go through!
See more here
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