The issue of lamb mortality in crofting areas flown by the Sea Eagles re-introduced to Scotland has been a contentious one.
Now a meeting between Scottish Natural Heritage (SNH), crofters in Skye and Gairloch, the Scottish Crofting Foundation, the Scottish Government and…
For Argyll has recently reported on the proposal to lease 25% of SCotland’s forests for a period of up to 75%. The proposal is that the reveue generated by sich leases wld be used to fund measures to combat climate change.
Environment…
The beaver re-introduction trial at Knapdale in Argyll - seeing the native species back in the country after being hunted to extinction 400 years ago, has just been given a new grant of £1 miliion.
[ January 14, 2009; 7:30 pm to 9:30 pm. ]
| January 14, 2009 | ||
| 7:30 pm | to | 9:30 pm |
On 14th January 2009, at 7.30pm in the Argyll Arms Hotel in Campbeltown, the Kintyre Antiquarian and Natural History Society is hosting a talk on Big Cats in Argyll. Everyone interested is welcome to come.
[ December 3, 2008; 7:30 pm to 9:30 pm. ]
| December 3, 2008 | ||
| 7:30 pm | to | 9:30 pm |
Kintyre Antiquarian and Natural History Society are hosting a talk on Wednesday 3rd December in the Argyll Arms Hotel at 7.30pm. Brian Baird will be focusing on Bats in Argyll, replacing a session advertised earlier on…
Nick Davies, wildlife photographer and videographer who lives overlooking Tobermory Bay on the’s Isle of Mull, got Argyll’s sealife scoop of the year. He saw dolphins start to play in the bar, ran to his kayak and paddled madly towards them…
There are some issues that touch on chords deeper than reason and the possibility of Scotland leasing 25% of its national forest estate to foreign logging companies would seem to be one of them.
The Scottish Government is consulting on the…
And, in the first instance, you can check them out remotely via the Islay website. There’s a good story on the Barnacle Geese and their relationship to this Argyll island with its significant areas of bird reserve. As usual with the…
In one of the most serious failures to protect vulnerable wildlife, the EU has removed the link between the payment of subsidies to landowners under the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) and observance of wildlife protection legislation. This link was known as…
The sea eagle breeding programme on Argyll’s Isle of Mull has been hugely successful - apart from the poisonings that continue to be a feature of some of Scotland’s estates. A young sea eagle which had hatched on Mull was found…
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