Category: INNS Week
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Mousa Biosecurity Trail
Guest blog from Holly Paget-Brown, Biosecurity for LIFE At Biosecurity for LIFE we are working hard to raise awareness of the threat of invasive predators and put in place systems to prevent their accidental introduction to islands. In particular we are focusing our efforts on 42 specially protected islands that are designated for breeding seabirds, including…
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Introduced animals in Shetland
Guest blog by Paul Harvey, Shetland Amenity Trust Yesterday we considered a few invasive plants that have the potential to wreak havoc among our native plants, today it’s the turn of animals. Let’s start with land mammals. There was no land bridge between Shetland and the British mainland or continental Europe after the last ice…
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Introduced Plants in Shetland
Guest blog by Paul Harvey, Shetland Amenity Trust Around a third of the species of flowering plants that one might come across in the Shetland countryside are not native to the islands. That’s a staggering 300 or so species that were deliberately, or accidentally, brought into Shetland by humans! The majority of these were brought…
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