Outdoors
Help save the original puffin crash landing into Tobermory and Mallaig
Every September fledgling Manx shearwaters fly from their burrows on Rum to begin an epic migration to South America, but, lured by lights, many are crash landing into Mull where they can’t take off again – without your help!
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SAMS scientists and subs return safe from melting glacier in Svalbard
‘It is like the west of Scotland, but with huge ice streams between the peaks,’ said Professor Mark Inall of SAMS. ‘[The glacier] has retreated half the distance from Connel to Taynuilt, which is the distance I bike.’
Outdoors
Salmon farms fund fight to halt drop in wild salmon and sea trout stocks
Scotland’s salmon farmers have set up a £1.5 million fund for projects tackling the fall of wild salmon and sea trout stocks in Scottish rivers
Outdoors
Fish farmer asks all 500 staff to help clean beaches
Beach clean to be business-wide effort, says Scottish Sea Farms
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Gamekeepers protest at government’s female deer cull
September’s cull of female deer will ‘protect millions of trees’ says the Scottish Government, but ‘angry’ and ‘sickened’ gamekeepers are in protest against this ‘disrespect to deer seasons’, arguing countless orphaned calves will starve.
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Planters rewild Loch Craignish with seagrass to help save planet
60 snorkellers have planted a meadow of seagrass in Loch Craignish in Scotland’s first community-led seagrass restoration project, in a bid to capture carbon dioxide faster than a rainforest
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New film asks Scottish Government and public to choose rewilding
Scottish Rewilding Alliance ramps up world’s first Rewilding Nation call with launch of new film ‘Choices’