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Wildcat Action receives massive boost from Heritage Lottery Fund

13 December, 2014

Embargoed until 0001hrs Sunday 14th December 2014

A ground-breaking co-operative conservation project to help the threatened Scottish wildcat is celebrating a Heritage Lottery Fund grant of £973,100.

Teachers set to make a difference by teaching outdoors

12 December, 2014

Fifteen teachers are set to make a difference to the lives of school children in West Dunbartonshire by beginning a professional development programme on outdoor learning.

Action to create better conditions for freshwater pearl mussels

12 December, 2014

Work to create better conditions for internationally important freshwater pearl mussels in an area of significant decline is underway.

First meeting of sea eagle stakeholder group in North Argyll and Lochaber

11 December, 2014

Conservationists, farmers and land managers have joined forces to discuss a range of management issues related to sea eagle management in North Argyll and Lochaber.

Isle of May consultation begins

04 December, 2014

Scottish Natural Heritage (SNH) wants to hear from people with an interest in the Isle of May National Nature Reserve (NNR) to help prepare a new ten-year management plan for the island. A public consultation will run from 8 December to 25 January.

Response to Guardian/Observer article about wildcats

28 November, 2014

We feel we must respond to Kevin McKenna’s inaccurate and scaremongering comment piece about Scottish wildcats on 23rd November. Inaccurate press coverage is causing confusion and sadly undermining public support which would otherwise go to Scottish wildcat conservation.

World’s most northerly bottlenose dolphins stable for 23 years

28 November, 2014

The number of Scotland’s famous east-coast bottlenose dolphins using the Moray Firth Special Area of Conservation (SAC) has remained stable for nearly quarter of a century, according to the latest report published by Scottish Natural Heritage (SNH) today (Friday).

Strathbeg goose funding applications open

21 November, 2014

Applications for funding through the Loch of Strathbeg Goose Management Scheme 2015 open this Monday, announced the Loch of Strathbeg Local Goose Management Group (LGMG) today.