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Saving Scotland’s Red Squirrels launches – work to start in April
One of Argyll’s great resources is its wildlife and biodiversity. A crucial – and photogenic – part of that is its red squirrel population, found across much of its mainland territory but not,...
View ArticleScottish Government’s Oban Forum on first ever Land Use Strategy
The future of Scotland’s land is to be debated in Oban. Argyllachs are being urged to help shape the nature and manner of the country’s future land use.Some of the fundamental questions that must be...
View ArticleCampbeltown Loch Beach Clean
There is a community beach clean at Campbeltown Loch on Sunday 11th April 2010 – between 2.00pm and 4.00pm.Those taking part – and the more the merrier – should meet at the Car Park at...
View ArticleRequest to Argyll: VOTE for Mull farm in RSPB’s Nature of Farming Awards 2011
It would be a great feather (pun intended) in the cap of Argyll and of Scotland if Mull’s Treshnish Farn were to win the RSBB’s 2011 Nature of Farming Award.Treshnish Farm is between Calgary and Ulva...
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Scientists take MP3 players to the hills on rare bird survey
Scientists are taking the teenagers’ favourite lightweightMP3 players to Scotland’s highest hills and mountains this year to help them to appreciate singers of a completely different kind.Britain’s...
View ArticleCrarae Garden goes wild on 5th August
Dont ‘worry. This is not some weird experiment to leave this glorious gorge garden to its own devices.This is a celebration of the wildlife that hangs out at Crarae, with displays, walks to look at...
View ArticleObserver article uses Argyll waters to highlight conflicts and contradictions...
An excellent and immediately readable article in yesterday’s [10th February] edition of The Observer, tours not only a stretch of Argyll’s west coast from offshore to Mull and the Sound of Mull and to...
View ArticleRSPB calls for restraint in burning the muir
The Fire Service announced just today that all of the wild fires that have scorched across the highlands in the last ten days or so are now extinguished.At the same time, the Royal Society for the...
View ArticleFor want of restrictions on wild camping, SNH consigns Loch Lomond’s...
The owner of four of Loch Lomond’s islands is urging authorities to look again at extending wild camping restrictions following the news that the loch’s capercaillie population is no longer...
View ArticleAdvice on planning new woodlands with eagles in mind
Already trialled in Argyll, Forestry Commission Scotland has today, Tuesday 4th September, published advice on how to plan and assess proposals for new woodlands in those parts of Scotland that are...
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Call for volunteers as HWDT launches vital new research expeditions on...
The United Kingdom’s only known resident population of killer whales is at risk of imminent extinction. Tobermory-based Hebridean Whale & Dolphin Trust [HWDT] has this week launched a new series of...
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Inaugural Whale Week Festival highlights western Scotland’s internationally...
World Oceans Day on 8th June will see a new annual week-long festival boosting the profile of The Hebrides as an internationally-important hotspot for whale spotting and conservation action.Whale Week...
View ArticleSouth Arran now Scotland’s only community-led MPA
The south of the Isle of Arran is now, 24th July 2014, a marine protected area [MPA], following a Scottish Government announcement.Islanders and the Community of Arran Seabed Trust [COAST] – which has...
View ArticleClimbers in roped-access botanical survey of Ben Nevis north face
The north face of Ben Nevis, the highest mountain in the United Kingdom, is internationally important for geology and plant life and is also important for birds. The mountain, and some of its...
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Report finds more vegetated shingle beaches in Scotland
A report published on 14th August has fund that there are more vegetated shingle beaches in Scotland than previously thought – and most of them are in good condition.Until recently, the information on...
View ArticleDalmally Grow Wild Community Orchard hosts Beechgrove Garden
This week, the Glenorchy & Innishail Community Orchard near Dalmally played host to the ever-popular BBC2 gardening programme, the Beechgrove Garden.When members of the Community Orchard team heard...
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Rewilding Scotland – return of lynx and wolf in spotlight
Visions of a rewilded Scotland – from restored forests to the return of predators such as the lynx and wolf – are in the spotlight this evening, 8th October, at a topical lecture featuring the highly...
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