The Latest Breaking News from Scottish Wildlife Trust

Breeding ospreys lay egg for the first time this year

A male and female, now officially known as LM24 and LF25 respectively, have fought off their competitors.

The Independent UK · May 4, 2025

Conservation charity secures Highlands estate bigger than Dundee

The Scottish Wildlife Trust said Inverbroom has ‘some of Scotland’s most iconic species and habitats’.

Evening Standard · Mar 3, 2025

Ospreys welcome two chicks on wildlife reserve in Perthshire

A PAIR of ospreys have hatched two chicks during their breeding season at the Scottish Wildlife Trust’s Loch of the Lowes Wildlife Reserve in…

The National (Scotland) · May 16, 2023

Man discovers 'alien' on Scots beach after spotting strange green fluorescent object in sand

Mike Arnott admits he 'had no idea what it was', but the Scottish Wildlife Trust has offered their expertise to help identify the creature.

Daily Record · Nov 22, 2022

National 'route map' strategy to boost beaver numbers in Perth and Kinross and beyond is published

The development of ‘Scotland’s Beaver Strategy 2022-45’ has involved more than 50 stakeholder organisations and is designed to steer wider efforts to identify and actively expand the population of the animals

Daily Record · Oct 4, 2022

Peter Tilbrook obituary

Other lives: Zoologist and nature conservationist who introduced the first peatland management scheme in Scotland

The Guardian - UK · Aug 22, 2022

Public told ‘half truths’ over nuclear fusion plan, say anti-nuclear campaign groups

ANTI-NUCLEAR campaigners have accused organisations supporting plans for a nuclear fusion plant in North Ayrshire of having promoted the project…

The National (Scotland) · Aug 7, 2022

UK sports clubs boost biodiversity by letting nature go wild on their grounds

Across the UK, cricket and golf clubs are starting to do their bit for local biodiversity by ditching the pesticides and nurturing wildlife

The Guardian - UK · Jul 31, 2022

Unusual moth discovered in Lanarkshire nature reserve is a Scottish first

The sallow-shoot piercer moth has never been spotted north of Birmingham.

Daily Record · Jul 20, 2022

Baby osprey dies in 'survival of the fittest' situation at Loch of the Lowes

There was a sad fatality at a Perthshire nature reserve when a battle for food led to an older osprey chick turning on its younger sibling to get first dibs on fish.

Daily Record · Jun 16, 2022