Record the wildlife you see and share your finding with others.
Report sightings of whales, dolphins and porposes and learn more about these species. Also report strandings in the Argyll & Islands area
Report stranded marine mammals here. They can provide help and guidance if you find a stranded or injured seal, whale, dolphin or porpoise.Beaver report submitted
The final ‘Beavers in Scotland’ report from the beaver reintroduction project has now been submitted to Scottish Ministers. The report draws on 20 years of work on beavers, including information from the Scottish Beaver Trial, the Tayside Beaver Study Group, the Beaver-Salmonid Working Group, other projects organised by SNH and a range of international studies.
SNH has also published a further nine Commissioned Reports on beavers, including the SBT final reports for the hydrology and fish monitoring, and an interim woodland monitoring report. SEPA’s water chemistry monitoring final report for the SBT has also been published.
You can download the ‘Beavers in Scotland’ report, and all the other new and older beaver outputs, by going to this website:
www.snh.gov.uk/beavers-in-scotland
There is also a press release here:
http://snh.presscentre.com/News-Releases/Report-on-beavers-in-Scotland-goes-to-Minister-1c2.aspx
We will all now await a decision by Ministers on the future of beavers in Scotland.
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Interactions with Basking Sharks
Our last evening lecturer before Christmas was Shane Wasik, of Basking Shark Scotland, a company who operate boats out of Oban during the summer season.
Shane spoke on ‘Interactions with Basking Sharks’ and told us that apart from giving visitors the opportunity of swimming with basking sharks, the second biggest fish in the world, BSS also photographed these gentle plankton-eating giants and collected data on their movements – there are many aspects of their lives still unrecorded. He spoke about the group’s photographing for the first time smaller fish accompanying them, much as pilot fish do with other sharks. These proved to be a fish native to the Canary Islands. The photography was excellent, in particular the high quality video taken from above by photographic drone, and listeners learnt a great deal about this elusive creature. His photographs included other species such as the sunfish, the heaviest bony fish in the world, which is occasionally seen in Scottish waters, maybe riding in on ‘offshoots’ of the North Atlantic Drift. A thoroughly enjoyable and informative talk.
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Beaver report published
The final report of the beaver reintroduction trial in Knapdale, Argyll has recently been published by the Scottish Wildlife Trust and the Royal Zoological Society of Scotland. You can find the report here, but be warned, it's a 16MB download. There's also an associated item on the SWT website here.
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New website launched
Our members' Group is moving into the digital age with the launch of a dedicated website. This will give us the opportunity to expand on the information available on the main Scottish Wildlife Trust website, publish our programme of talks and walks, make our newsletters available to registered members and add photos, news and information about wildlife and conservation in Argyll and Lochaber.
Watch this space!
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