State selling Rum’s Kinloch Castle to save it from ruin, after community buyout fails
‘Benevolent’ new owner sought for a rotting ‘nationally significant’ Hebridean hunting lodge valued at £70,000.
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Katie and Bryon to test drive pilot ranger scheme
Placements commence in June 2021, with students based at an area office and working with NNR staff at a number of reserves.
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Rum group seek way forward for Kinloch Castle
The historic building was built for Sir (then simply Mr) George Bullough in the last years of the 19th and first years of the 20th centuries and completed around 1901.
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Funding for community marine surveys
The Community Marine Monitoring Equipment Fund is offering support to up to 10 groups to buy equipment to record and monitor their local marine life.
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New measurements on deer management
The proposals include phasing out the use of lead ammunition to cull deer, modernisation of existing deer legislation, the development of robust deer management plans and enhanced monitoring of deer numbers.
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Scots want to do more for wildlife: 10 easy ways to help
‘Biodiversity and climate change are inextricably linked – in appreciating the natural world, we all have the power to help wildlife, ourselves and help tackle climate change.’
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Story-gathering project set to gather tales of the West Coast
Match funding for the project has also come from Caledonian MacBrayne (CalMac) and West Highland College UHI, giving the whole project a value of over £500,000.
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Seil skippers’s call to save rare flapper skate egg site
People are being urged to write to their MSPs asking for immediate protection for the Flapper Skate that are as endangered as Giant Panda and Polar Bears.
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‘World first’ as endangered skate hatches near Oban
‘To see it hatch successfully and be released back into the ocean was a wonderful moment,’ says NatureScot.
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Fresh insight into secret lives of basking sharks
The SharkCam followed three basking sharks below the surface of the water, collecting video of their behaviour from a distance as they swam off the coast of Coll and Tiree.