Scotland's NNRs

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

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.

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.

Moss covered trees and boulders, Ariundle Oakwood, Lorne Gill/SNH

Ariundle Oakwood

This peaceful woodland is a rare surviving fragment of the native oakwoods that once spread along the Atlantic coast. Ariundle has a huge diversity of mosses, lichens, liverworts and ferns and is home to rare and beautiful butterflies and dragonflies.... more on Ariundle Oakwood

Future events

13/02/2010

Meet the Wardens

Location:
Start time: 2pm

24/02/2010

Path Maintenance, Inchcailloch

Location: Loch Lomond & The Trossachs National Park
Start time: