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Argyll and the Inner Hebrides

Learn more about our activity in Argyll and the Inner Hebrides – the local team, our target species, and what we’re doing to help them. 

Argyll and the Inner Hebrides

 

Leugh ann an Gàidhlig / Read in Gaelic

In Argyll and the Inner Hebrides, we have a team of four Species on the Edge officers: Cathryn, Liz, Lucy and Sally. Cathryn is based on Skye, Liz on Mull, Lucy on Islay, and Sally is on the mainland. Together they are working closely with local communities and land managers to secure a future for 19 nationally rare and vulnerable species. 

Our activity

  • Habitat creation and improvement
  • Working with land managers to reduce the use of veterinary medicines to increase invertebrate populations for chough
  • Erection of bat shelters
  • Medicinal leech breeding programme
  • Cover management for corncrake
  • Advice for land managers
  • Species surveying and monitoring
  • Volunteer opportunities and training
A map of Argyll and Inner Hebrides

 

Our species

  • Brown long-eared bat
  • Common pipistrelle
  • Corncrake
  • Curlew
  • Daubenton’s bat
  • Great yellow bumblebee
  • Greenland white-fronted goose
  • Lapwing
  • Little tern
  • Marsh fritillary butterfly
  • Medicinal leech
  • New Forest burnet moth
  • Northern colletes mining bee
  • Red-billed chough
  • Short-necked oil beetle
  • Slender Scotch burnet moth
  • Soprano pipistrelle
  • Talisker burnet moth 
  • Transparent burnet moth 

 

Your Argyll and Inner Hebrides team

Cathryn

Cathryn Baillie

PROJECT OFFICER (SKYE)


Sally

Sally Morris

Project Officer (Mainland)


Liz

Liz Peel

Project Officer (Mull)


Lucy

Lucy Atkinson

Project Officer (Islay)


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Get involved

 

There are so many ways you can get involved with Species on the Edge and support your local species. We have a range of volunteering opportunities and events throughout the year – from work parties, to survey training, to creative workshops – and we are also able to work with land managers to help them support biodiversity on their land. For more information on how you can get involved, get in touch with your local officer.

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