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Solway Coast

Learn more about our activity on the Solway Coast – the local team, our target species, and what we’re doing to help them. 

Solway Coast

 

On the Solway Coast, we have a team of two Species on the Edge officers, Liam and Jack. Together they are working closely with local communities and land managers to secure a future for 13 nationally rare and vulnerable species. 

Our activity

  • Habitat creation and restoration
  • Scrub and grassland management
  • Control of invasive non-native species
  • Conservation breeding programme 
  • Management of grazing levels
  • Species surveying and monitoring
  • Awareness raising
  • Management advice for landowners
Map of Scotland's Solway Coast

 

Our species

  • Brown long-eared bat
  • Chough
  • Common pipistrelle
  • Common tern
  • Curlew
  • Daubenton’s bat
  • Greenland white-fronted geese
  • Lapwing
  • Little tern
  • Natterjack toad
  • Northern brown argus
  • Soprano pipistrelle 
  • Tadpole shrimp 

Your Solway team

A man holds a bat detector. He is wearing a hat with the Species on the Edge logo on it and a high vis vest

Liam Templeton

Project Officer


Jack

Jack Barton

project Officer


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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 Liam or Jack.

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