Jupiter Comes of Age
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In no more than 20 years this strip of derelict land has become a small, vital haven for the natural world and a refuge for both people and wildlife
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Surviving the Big Freeze
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I meet Professor Russell Coope on the front step of his house, overlooking the wilds of Loch Tummel in Highland Perthshire. His home immediately strikes me as an apt setting for a paleontologist who has dedicated much of his life to studying the natural history of ice ages. This highland landscape was once carved out of ice by a glacier several kilometers deep.
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Royal Pictish Monastery Found in Highland Perthshire
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A dedicated band of local volunteers opened up two exploratory trenches to reveal what they believes to be the remains of a Pictish monastic enclosure, also known as a vallum monastery, dating back to the 6th century AD. It’s in a beautiful state of preservation,” said archeologist Dr Oliver O’Grady, “and one of the best upstanding pieces of Pictish archaeology that I’ve ever seen.”
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Springwatch’s Adventure Team comes to Knapdale
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BBC Springwatch sent their remote ‘Adventure Team’ to Argyll to feature the Knapdale beaver trial. SWT sent Jamie Grant along for an exclusive interview with them out on location.
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Glenlyon Hydro threat to Celtic Heritage
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I have lived in Glenlyon, known in Gaelic as Gleann Dubh nan Garbh Clac (the crooked Glen of the Stones), for the past ten years. During this time there is one remote spot that I have loved to visit more than any other. To reach it you have to drive to the road’s end at Pubil, where the Lubreoch hydro-electric dam holds back the waters of Loch Lyon. From here a small track skirts the north shore of the loch, into the Glen’s most westerly marches.
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