The Scottish Wildlife Trust is inviting submissions in English, Scots or Gaelic up to 1,000 words long and written in any form: poem, letter, short story, essay, song lyrics – whichever works best to tell your story about the wild. Entries are limited to one per person, deadline 12 July 2025. There are over £2,000 worth […]
The Scottish Crofters Federation is running a series of seasonal croft horticulture online workshops, with Isle of Lewis crofter and market gardener, John Hamilton, giving practical advice on planning, planting, soil, compost, harvesting, selling, growing all year round, and scaling up production. Harvesting and preparing for selling, 15th July 2025 Courses are held by Zoom, […]
Having a clear out? Need to de-clutter? Looking for something pre-loved to take home? Come to one of our Waste Not Wednesday events and have a good rummage. Take away pre-loved but unwanted items for free. 'One person's trash is another's treasure.' Waste Not is OPEN 10am - 5pm once a week, at 9 Torrin. PLEASE […]
The July film evening will be themed to link with the Marine Litter open day on 27 July. Two short films based right here in Skye and Lochalsh illustrate the horrors of whale entanglement and the trial of a new fishing technique to avoid entanglement. The third film is yet to be confirmed. We are […]
Having a clear out? Need to de-clutter? Looking for something pre-loved to take home? Come to one of our Waste Not Wednesday events and have a good rummage. Take away pre-loved but unwanted items for free. 'One person's trash is another's treasure.' Waste Not is OPEN 10am - 5pm once a week, at 9 Torrin. PLEASE […]
Dr Tom Stanton's Loughborough group will be carrying out a clean at Camasunary in conjunction with the John Muir Trust – all welcome to join this. Meeting at the Kilmarie car park for 1000 hrs. Contact Skye beach cleans (skye.beachcleans@gmail.com or via Facebook).
by Angie Wardle This is the link to the Big butterfly count. We have until the 10th August to do it and it only takes 15 minutes. There is a specific ID chart for Scotland for those of us who don’t know all the species.
The fourth quarterly marine litter survey of Ostaig Beach will be on Saturday 26 July. Sleat Nature Group, working in collaboration with Loughborough University, is quantifying the amount and type of marine litter in 10x10m quadrats, based on Scottish Islands Federation and Marine Conservation ociety methodology. The data collected will help to persuade policy makers […]