I have been working with Cromarty Firth Fisheries Board for 2 months now and am getting a good idea of what the staff Cromarty Firth do on a day to day basis, and have learnt lots of valuable skills in fisheries ...
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Saving the Peatlands
The science of climate change can make for gloomy reading. For many it conjures up images of a morass of drab data all of which points to steadily worsening news. Hope, however, comes in the form of the ambitious work being ...
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Being a Brownfield Tourist
Its hard to believe that I have now been doing my apprenticeship for over two months, although looking back I’ve already learned a lot.
I was lucky to get the chance to visit the Scottish Museums entomology collection. A ...
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Natural Talent experience
Natural Talent in action ...
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Down on the Farm
Mary-Jane Lawrie (nee Fleming), farmland conservation apprentice
When John asked me to write up what I have been up to since I finished my farmland conservation apprenticeship, I honestly struggled to remember when I even ...
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