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Celebrating Volunteers’ Week 2020 and Thinking Ahead
By Alison Matheson, SNH Policy and Advice Officer Today sees the start of Volunteers’ Week 2020. Volunteers’ Week is an annual celebration of the contribution that millions of people make across the UK through volunteering. Over the last few months, … Continue reading
Posted in citizen science, SNH, Uncategorized, Volunteering
Tagged citizen science, Scottish Natural Heritage, SNH, Volunteering, volunteers
Sea-searchers recognised for 31-year contribution to marine conservation.
SNH has supported Seasearch in Scotland for many years now. The skills and enthusiasm of their union of marine life investigators has in turn supported our own research. Some of our marine team are Seasearch volunteers in their free time. … Continue reading
Posted in Awards, biodiversity, citizen science, coastal, Community engagement, conservation, mapping, Marine, Marine Protected Areas, MPA, MPAs, Priority Marine Features, Research, sea life, SNH, survey, Uncategorized, Volunteering, Year of Coasts and Waters 2020
Tagged #YCW2020, citizen science, divers, diving, mapping, marine, marine life, Nature of Scotland Awards, NatureScot, Research, Scottish Natural Heritage, scuba, Seasearch, SNH, survey, training, Volunteering, volunteers, Year of Coasts and Waters 2020 #YCW2020
Butterflies of the night, beautifully captured.
Having a keen personal interest in macro photography, Caroline Anderson jumped at the chance to use her Volunteering Day to help reserve staff with a moth trap at Taynish National Nature Reserve. Caroline, a Unit Administrator based in our Lochgilphead … Continue reading
Posted in Argyll National Nature Reserves, art, biodiversity, citizen science, conservation, Insects, moth, Nature in art, photography, Staff profile, Taynish NNR, Uncategorized
Tagged Caroline Anderson, insects, moths, nature, NNR, photography, SNH, Taynish, Volunteering
Beauty and innovation at Beinn Eighe NNR
George Winter, from Derby, recently spent 4 months volunteering at Beinn Eighe National Nature Reserve. However, this was far from his first time volunteering for outdoor work! Here he tells us about how his passion for the Scottish Highlands grew … Continue reading
Posted in Beinn Eighe NNR, National Nature Reserves, Volunteering
Tagged Beinn Eighe, Beinn Eighe NNR, outdoors, Scottish Natural Heritage, SNH, Volunteering, volunteers
St Cyrus’ most wild and rare
Simon Ritchie is the newly appointed Seasonal Reserve Assistant based at the SNH St Cyrus National Nature Reserve (NNR), north of Montrose. Growing up in the area, Simon has developed a wealth of experience, and knowledge of the reserve. As … Continue reading
Posted in beach, beaches, biodiversity, coastal, Flowers, Marine, National Nature Reserves, plants, SNH, St Cyrus National Nature Reserve, Staff profile, Uncategorized, Volunteering, wild flowers, Year of Young People, Young people
Tagged Coast, flowers, St Cyrus National Nature Reserve, Volunteering
The joy of volunteering
Mark McVey is a member of the Coves Reservoir Green Gym in Greenock, run by The Conservation Volunteers (TCV) and partner organisations. Here he tells us about the many benefits that volunteering delivers. How did you get involved in the … Continue reading
Posted in Volunteering
Tagged Coves Reservoir Green Gym, Scottish Natural Heritage, SNH, TCV, Volunteering
Diary entries from Creag Meagaidh (Part 2)
The 2017-2018 intake of SNH Graduate Placements took to the Highlands in mid December to visit Creag Meagaidh National Nature Reserve (NNR). As part of their training and development, they ventured out to learn more about reserve management and volunteering. … Continue reading
Posted in Year of Young People
Tagged Creag Meagaidh, graduate placement, Scottish Natural Heritage, SNH, Volunteering, Year of Young People
A new outlook on Scotland’s natural heritage
Thanks to a childhood spent moving from one country to the next, from the UK to Australia and on to Germany, it seemed his mind was always somewhere else, often far away. Steven Neish, one of our volunteers at Tentsmuir … Continue reading
Posted in Year of Young People
Tagged Scottish Natural Heritage, SNH, Tentsmuir National Nature Reserve, Volunteering, Wildlife
Volunteering and learning new skills
David Murray has been volunteering with The Conservation Volunteers (TCV) in Glasgow for approximately three years. “I was paid off from my job and did nothing for a couple of months, so I went online looking for something to … Continue reading
Posted in Volunteering
Tagged Scottish Natural Heritage, SNH, TCV, Volunteering
Building a career through volunteering
Jack Ward, our Deer Stalker and Reserve Officer at Beinn Eighe NNR, tells us how he got into deer management through volunteering. I have volunteered for different organisations since the age of 15. Initially for a charity called the Deer … Continue reading
Posted in Volunteering
Tagged Beinn Eighe NNR, Creag Meagaidh, deer management, Scottish Natural Heritage, SNH, Volunteering
