Imagine auditing the UK countryside. Where would you start? The sheer scale of the job is unimaginable - but it’s underway. The largest survey of its kind undertaken in Britain, or the first stage of it, the British Countryside Survey…
VisitScotland has come up with an inspired initiative capitalising on yet another of Scotland’s envied natural resources - great swathes of the country with no light pollution. Remote and virtually empty territory means dark skies, the best and hard-to-find conditions…
For Argyll reported recently on two cases of deliberate poisoning of raptors - at the Glenquiech and Glenogil estates in Angus - seeing one of Mull’s home-bred young sea eagles dead from deliberate poisoning at Glenquiech. These incidents hrow a…
[ November 19, 2008 to November 23, 2008. ]
| November 19, 2008 | to | November 23, 2008 |
The 2008 Inverness Film Festival is running at the Eden Court Theatre in Inverness from 19th - 23rd November. A full Film Diary for the event is available.
There are two Gala Screenings - one on 19th November and…
Not a great night for democracy. The Public meeting held at Lochgilphead to discuss the draft Loch Fyne Coastal Zone Management Plan had an attendance of ten, three of whom were from a single village - Furnace - and none…
With the tail end of the winds still lingering, some ferry services are still disrupted. Argyll services affected are:
Tayinloan - Gigha: This service was suspended earlier but is now (10.00) running normally.
Kennacraig - Islay: The 07:00 and the 09.45 sailings…
The existing measures to protect water quality in Loch Fyne for the good pf the vital shellfish industry have been extended under the Scottish Government’s new Shellfish Waters Directive.
This identifies seven areas of Scottish coast now selected for these protective…
Highlands and islands Enterprise (HIE) is funding Orcadian company, Aquatera, based in Stromness, to carry out surveys of tidal streams in and around the Orkney islands and the Pentland Firth - the first marine site in the UK to be…
From next year, Supermarket chain Sainsburys is to send all of its waste food to special plants where it will be converted to methane gas. This in turn will generate electricity to heat and light the chain’s eight hundred stores…
Argyll and Bute Council and Lower Clyde Greenspace are working in partnership and with five communities throughout Argyll and Bute to carry out a study on open spaces in the areas. The communities are Rothesay, Dunoon, Lochgilphead/Ardrishaig, Oban and Campbeltown.
These…
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