Flowers of spring and summer
Plantlife shares images of flowers to identify as spring and summer unfolds. Check out the fascinating natural facts and cultural stories around each species. Plantlife is involved with Species on the Edge in Scotland.
Learning about invasive non-native species – resources for schools and universities
Invasive non-native species are one of the top threats to global biodiversity, cost the economy over £1.7 billion a year, and can even impact on our health and the way we live. Their impacts affect us all, and we can all help to prevent their spread. The GB Non-native Species Secretariat [...]
Scottish Invasive Species Initiative School Film Project
Check out the final two productions from the SISI Primary School Film project! Primary school pupils have worked with SISI staff and Media Education to learn about invasive species and film making. Milnes Primary School have created a film about Japanese knotweed - and what we can to do tackle [...]
Successful breeding season for wildcats in the Cairngorms
Cairngorms Nature News (3 November 2022) report that the Saving Wildcats project has had an incredibly successful first breeding season this year. 22 kittens were born in a dedicated conservation breeding for release centre in a quiet area away from visitors at the Royal Zoological Society of Scotland’s (RZSS) Highland [...]
Pupils share their films about managing invasive species
Two more fantastic films have been released from the Scottish Invasive Species Initiative (SISI) School Film Project Pupils from Bualnaluib Primary School in Wester Ross have created an Introduction to Biosecurity film with some great animations. We hear all about biosecurity and how to protect our natural environment in Scotland [...]
Scottish schools create films about invasive species
The Scottish Invasive Species Initiative has been making movies with the young people of Kellands Primary School, Bualnaluib (Aultbea) Primary School and Scourie Primary. Check out these films here.
Wallabies to damselflies: Scotland’s newest animals get Gaelic names
This article in The Guardian (2 April 2022) describes how species moving north into Scotland as our climate heats, along with more recent introductions, have been given Gaelic names. For example, the leathery sea squirt is now spùtachan-mara leatharach, for leathery little squirting creature of the sea!
Giant bees, extinction, and rediscovery
This Scottish Pollinators post ‘Quietly riding off into the sunset’ (14 October 2021) explores the rediscovery of a giant bee species. Species rarity, rediscovery and extinction is discussed, in the context of biodiversity, habitat and climate change.
