Moving species in a changing climate
In this post on Scotland’s Nature (21 November 2024) to mark nature day at COP29, Martin Gaywood tells us about his recent Churchill Fellowship report. This looks at conservation translocation – the movement of species to restore populations and ecosystems – in the context of our changing climate.
Helping hedgehogs
In this Amateur Gardening article (14 October 2024), Olivia Watts from the Field Studies Council explains how to keep hedgehogs happy this autumn.
New project gives Scotland’s rivers £1.8 million boost
The Scottish Wildlife Trust share news about this ambitious new conservation project that will create and restore river woodlands across Scotland. As well as delivering practical conservation work, the project also aims to reconnect communities across Scotland with their river woodlands. This will be achieved through over 1,000 volunteer days [...]
Detective work in Highland Perthshire
Read about how this Butterfly Conservation project with local landowners is supporting populations of three of our rarest butterflies and moths, in this Scottish Pollinators post (16 September 2024).
Wildlife Conservation Internship Grants
The national Biodiversity Network (NBN) have shared this funding opportunity in their latest bulletin. Are you a British graduate, or have you recently finished your undergraduate degree at a university in the UK? Are you looking to work in conservation in the UK but finding it hard to get anywhere [...]
The Butterfly of the Bogs
Read this NatureScot post (7 June 2024) to discover more about a beautiful butterfly that can only live on peatlands – and healthy peatlands at that. If we let our peatlands dry out, the large heath butterfly will have nowhere to live and breed – and that would be very [...]
East coast dolphins
This blog post (26 April 2024) in Scotland’s Nature shares How is Scotland’s east coast bottlenose dolphin population doing? It includes a short video at the end of monitoring work.
Nature conservation works, and we’re getting better at it – new study
This article in The Conversation (25 April 25, 2024) shares some useful findings and provides some hope.
