After No-Mow May comes Let it bloom June! Some tips on how to manage your lawn for nature all year round from Plant Life's Let it Bloom June campaign. Things don’t have to get messy and you can...
Let it bloom June!
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SCA News: Blog
Want to work in Wildlife and Conservation Management?
SRUC (Scotland's Rural College) is offering a distance learning course in MSc Wildlife and Conservation Management. The flexible, online, three-year programme includes conservation management, rural...
Does Skye need a Plastic Action group?
by Anne MacLennan Plastic is a problem and there is a lot of it about. Invented (as Bakelite) in 1907, production had reached 2.3m tons annually by 1950, 448 tons in 2015, and is set to at least...
Reflecting on the Polycrisis
by Anne MacLennan In his new book, A Climate of Truth Mike Berners-Lee (author of There is no Planet B) points out that we are in a polycrisis, faced with interactive crises in climate,...
Highland Council energy project map is now live
Last year, following an intervention by Councillor Helen Crawford, Aird & Loch Ness Ward, more than 60 community councils demanded that Highland Council provide a map of all the renewable energy...
Projects for May in your garden
First of all, don’t cut the lawn! Plantlife runs the No Mow May campaign every year, encouraging people to let the grass grow to benefit wildflowers and other wildlife. Useful information on the...