Category Archives: biodiversity

Working together for nature and climate

Posted on September 27, 2022 by NatureScot

It’s Scotland’s Climate Week and we’re encouraging everyone to talk about nature loss and climate change together, because without nature there is no climate.  To get your conversation started, David O’Brien shares his love of monitoring wildlife and explores the … Continue reading →

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Protecting Orkney’s special wildlife: The Orkney Native Wildlife Project

Posted on August 11, 2022 by NatureScot

Today, we feature a guest blog from the Orkney Native Wildlife Project team. The project staff are working hard to safeguard the unique and internationally important native wildlife of Orkney by tackling the threat it faces from an invasive non-native … Continue reading →

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Remote community partnership achieves big wins for wildlife, heritage and people

Posted on August 2, 2022 by NatureScot

Coigach & Assynt Living Landscape is one of the largest community-led partnerships in Scotland, with 10 of its 14 partners drawn from local communities. Despite a population of just 1400, these tiny communities have pulled together to bring significant positive … Continue reading →

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Monitoring the not-so-common Common Crane in North East Scotland

Posted on June 1, 2022 by NatureScot

Today, we welcome back guest blogger and ace photographer Ron Macdonald, who takes us on an amazing visual and auditory journey following common cranes in North East Scotland, as he volunteers for RSPB to help monitor and understand this recovering … Continue reading →

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Mapping the way forward for Scotland’s pollinators

Posted on April 21, 2021 by NatureScot

Our blog today looks at one of the many projects NatureScot is working on to improve the future for our vital pollinating insects. Cameron, one of this year’s NatureScot graduate placements who is mapping Scotland’s pollinator-friendly habitats, tells us more … Continue reading →

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How do adders hibernate?

Posted on April 8, 2021 by NatureScot

Our blog today is written by Bethia, one of this year’s NatureScot student placements who will be spending a year based across the Stirling NNRs: Flanders Moss, Blawhorn Moss and Loch Lomond. Growing up on the doorstep of the Abernethy … Continue reading →

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Gulls: a balancing act

Posted on April 1, 2021 by NatureScot

It may not seem like it when gulls are swooping down trying to steal your chips, but the number of many species of gulls has plummeted. In fact, herring gulls and kittiwakes are on the red list of conservation concern … Continue reading →

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Weaving a tapes-tree – The Loch Lomond Woodlands Project

Posted on March 21, 2021 by NatureScot

To celebrate the International Day of Forests, our graduate placement Heather Reilly is highlighting some of our most important wooded areas, and the data mapping project which aims to better understand and illustrate them, in today’s blog. On the bonny … Continue reading →

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Otter spotting in Tiree

Posted on February 16, 2021 by NatureScot

Today’s guest blog is from the Tiree Ranger, Hayley Douglas. Hayley works for Tiree Community Development Trust and took up the ranger post in November 2019 after working at Clyde Muirshiel Regional Park as a ranger and project officer from … Continue reading →

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Mapping the Birds of South East Scotland – A Celebration of Citizen Science in Action

Posted on February 5, 2021 by NatureScot

This week’s blog is written by Mike Thornton, a NatureScot operations officer in the Lothians, and a keen volunteer citizen scientist. Mike has worked on a range of citizen science projects, including the Birds in South-east Scotland 2007-13, a Scottish … Continue reading →

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