by Eli Graham | Saturday, April 22, 2023
Following a significant oil spill in California in 1969, in 1970, former US Senator Gaylord Nelson created Earth Day on April 22nd. The aim of this was to raise awareness of the growing number of environmental issues our planet faces, especially due to climate change...
by Scot Muir | Thursday, August 22, 2019
If you have read Part 1 you will have realised that the tortoise wasn’t actually a tortoise, it was a terrapin, some might even argue a turtle, but hey I’m no expert! On the day between the stakeout and the capture of the terrapin we were out on an INNS patrol...
by Scot Muir | Monday, August 19, 2019
Working with the Forth Rivers Trust most days / weeks throw-up new challenges, last week was no exception. Following reports of terrapin/s being spotted in the river Almond and subsequently an excellent photograph that tied in a location we decided to go on a hunt....
by Amelia | Friday, August 16, 2019
Earlier this year, an Environmental DNA sample – from one of the flood lagoons by the Bogburn in Bathgate- signalled the presence of the European protected Great Crested Newt (GCN). I will not pretend to understand the intricacies of Environmental DNA sampling,...
by Amelia | Tuesday, April 30, 2019
About this time every year thousands of tiny buds erupt all around us as we carry on with our daily lives. On a particularly sunny morning we may even notice the stark brightness of green springing out from what seems like everywhere, making those mundane Monday and...
by admin | Monday, April 15, 2019
I marvel at how resilient nature is at times. This has recently been demonstrated a few times by some of the invertebrates on the river Almond system. Iain has been out and about on both the Almond and Avon recently doing the ecological surveying for the RiverLife...
