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  Steve Bamford writes: I am an amateur naturalist and volunteer recorder/worker of Butterfly Conservation.             This is a plea for donations, no matter how small, to save an iconic species of butterfly that is just holding on after years of decline in an area where it used to be…

I was in Edinburgh over the weekend and took a trip out to Dunbar to see where John Muir grew up.  The house with a very good display about his life and achievements used to be the grain store next to the house where he lived (which is big, and for sale if you fancy…

The BAWC fundraiser – to tag raptors in persecution hotspots – is now very close to £15,000. Thank you to all who have contributed so far. I understand that field testing continues, tags are being ordered and lots of forms are being filled in. If you’d like to support BAWC’s first full field project then…

Mountaineering Scotland are looking for a safe route down from the ledge onto which they have jumped. Finding themselves cuddling up to the Scottish Gamekeepers Association on an exposed overhang with a big drop below them, they are looking to clamber to safety. The bit of a row is about Mountaineering Scotland choosing (because I…