In this issue:

• 06 FRESHWATER LOCHS A glimpse beneath the surface of Scotland’s freshwater lochs.
• 08 NEWS News round-up from the Trust and the world of conservation.
• 16 NATURAL CAPITAL Rich Rowe explores the Edinburgh Nature Network’s pioneering approach to urban nature restoration.
• 20 Q&A With Cheryl Jones, Sustainability Manager, Lloyds Banking Group.
• 22 THE WILD WEST Ida Maspero gets under the skin of the Trust’s Rahoy Hills reserve – a rugged area of increasingly wild land on the remote Morvern peninsula.
• 26 OUR AGM Join us online this September for our 58th Annual General Meeting.
• 28 PLANT PROTECTORS Dr Matt Elliot outlines how advances in plant biosecurity will help protect Scotland’s most vulnerable species.
• 31 BIG PICTURE Dr Lisa Kamphausen on time well spent with a bobtail squid.
• 32 WATCH OUT FOR Things to enjoy in the coming months.
• 34 VIEWPOINT Ian Young details how engagement with the natural world has provided strength during periods of serious illness and convalescence.