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Wading birds and a shared approach to wildlife management
At the end of last month, NatureScot launched the Shared Approach to Wildlife Management, which sets out how different interest groups can work together to help ensure healthy and valued populations of wildlife across Scotland. In the third of a series of … Continue reading
Posted in Birds, wildlife management
Tagged birds, NatureScot, waders, wildlife management, Working for Waders
Sea eagles and a shared approach to wildlife management
Two weeks ago, NatureScot launched the Shared Approach to Wildlife Management which sets out how different interest groups can work together to help ensure healthy and valued populations of wildlife across Scotland. In the second of a series of blogs, we look … Continue reading
Beavers and a shared approach to wildlife management
Last week, NatureScot launched the Shared Approach to Wildlife Management which sets out how different interest groups can work together to help ensure healthy and valued populations of wildlife across Scotland. In the first of a series of blogs, we … Continue reading
Posted in wildlife management
Tagged beavers, NatureScot, shared approach, Tayside, wildlife management
The hare necessities
The bare necessities of informed wildlife management are that we can assess how populations respond to environmental change and management. To support the sustainable management of Scottish mountain hares, Scottish Natural Heritage is working with scientists from the James Hutton … Continue reading
The prickly issue of Uists’ waders
It’s thought that just seven hedgehogs were introduced to South Uist in 1974 – to control slugs and snails in a domestic garden. Since then the invasive carnivores have spread across South Uist and Benbecula in the Outer Hebrides. Today, … Continue reading
Posted in biodiversity, Birds, wildlife management
Tagged biodiversity, Bird, birds, Coast, conservation, dunlin, hedgehogs, lapwing, nest predation, redshank, ringed plover, Scottish Natural Heritage, SNH, snipe, waders, wildlife management
