• Conservation interventions: what works for waders?
    Blog by Sean Jellesmark, an Inspire4nature PhD student at University College of London and the Zoological Society of London, working in collaboration with the RSPB. Across Europe, wader populations...
  • Wetlands on Orkney – a vital habitat for farmland breeding waders?
    Wetlands on Orkney – a vital habitat for farmland breeding waders? The publication of an RSPB-led study describes the importance of wetlands for breeding waders within Orkney’s farmed landscape. In...
  • Can predation limit bird populations in the UK?
    RSPB Scotland's Senior Conservation Scientist Staffan Roos describes the findings of a new study that he and his RSPB colleagues Jennifer Smart , David Gibbons and Jeremy Wilson recently published in...
  • South Georgia's vision - safeguarding a world class environment
    Sacha Cleminson has just sent us this email from the South Atlantic and it brings good news - so I'm delighted to share it with our Saving Special Places blog readers. Its not all doom! Nice strategy...
  • 2021 must be a year of action to safeguard nature
    2021 is a year of challenges and opportunities for nature in Scotland. From the Scottish Parliamentary Elections in May to November’s United Nations Conference on Climate Change (COP26) in Glasgow, this...