Mothing at Bankhead Moss and Fleecefaulds Meadow

Volunteer Stephen Buckland has been identifying different species of moths at our Bankhead Moss and Fleecefaulds Meadow wildlife reserves in Fife, with 158 different species recorded on the meadow alone.

Creatures of the Night

Here we are in Autumn with increasingly short hours of daylight between rosy dawns and glorious golden sunsets – when it’s not stormy, that is!  We hope you are safe

Why save the red squirrel?

This week is both Red Squirrel Awareness Week and the week of Saving Scotland’s Red Squirrels’ Great Scottish Squirrel Survey! What better week to remind ourselves of why, as the

A month to never ever forget!

What did I do this summer, you ask? I volunteered on Handa Island, an a-ma-zing wildlife reserve on the west coast of Scotland! For those not familiar with this small

Young Leader Libby’s volunteering journey

Libby Smith joined the Scottish Wildlife Trust’s Young Leader programme in January 2021 after graduating in earth and marine sciences at university. She wanted to continue learning about wildlife and

Osprey Shortened Migration

With the breeding season all but over and ospreys embarking once again on their epic migration south, it’s a good time to look a little bit deeper at some of

Journeys on Eigg

Marco Dobson is a 19-year-old ecology student from North-West England who was one of our volunteer rangers on the Isle of Eigg during May to June 2023. He shares the

National Marine Week 2023 – celebrating GenSea

From the 22 July to the 6 August, The Wildlife Trusts (a federation of 46 independent wildlife conservation charities covering the whole of the UK) celebrated #NationalMarineWeek. The theme for

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