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Join SNH and RSPB for a wetlands wonderland
Join Scottish Natural Heritage (SNH) and the RSPB for a free, guided walk around Loch Leven’s spectacular wetlands to celebrate World Wetlands Day on 2 February.
National Nature Reserves (NNRs) are magical places where you can experience the incredible sights and sounds of Scotland's natural world.
These reserves help protect an amazing range of wildlife and landscapes, including many rare species and habitats of international importance.
Located throughout Scotland, NNRs are open to everyone to visit and enjoy.
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Latest news
22/01/2010
21/12/2009
DESCENDANTS’ EMOTIONAL VISIT TO THE MAY
Scottish Natural Heritage’s Isle of May National Nature Reserve, at the entrance to the Firth of Forth, had an unusual visitor this year - and it wasn’t a bird. The great, great, great, great granddaughter of the only survivor of one of the more tragic e
01/12/2009
SNH reserve set to star in major new BBC programme
‘A Highland Haven’, BBC2, Thursday 3 December at 9pm. Stunning scenery and majestic wildlife are the stars of a major new BBC television programme filmed over a year at a Scottish Natural Heritage National Nature Reserve.
Loch Maree Islands
More than forty scattered islands carry the nearest thing to natural woodland left in Britain, a fragment of the original Caledonian Pine Forest. The wet climate of this area has resulted in blanket bog filling the damp hollows, where occasional stunted pines have taken hold. Black-throated divers take advantage of the tranquillity of one of Britain’s least polluted freshwater lochs to breed here.... more on Loch Maree Islands
Future events
03/08/2010
Osprey Walk
Location: Burleigh Sands
Start time: 6pm
03/08/2010
Peek in the Pond - Beinn Eighe
Location: Beinn Eighe National Nature Reserve
Start time: 2am
04/08/2010
Hillside safari
Location:
Start time: 1:30pm