Previous Meetings

Ben Nevis - Remnant of a Lost Volcanic Landscape - Roddy Muir, geologist on the North Face Ben Nevis Project

Cranberries, Crowberries and Cloudberries--Ian Strachan, BSBI

The Corncrake in Scotland -- Chris Bailey, RSPB

Dragonflies -- Jon Mercer

The Shiant Isles -- Alister Clunas

Filming wildlife in The Highlands and beyond -- Jim Manthorpe

Corrour Estate -- Allan MacLeod

Antarctic Blue Whales -- Susie Calderan

Scotland - The Big Picture and Rewilding -- Pete Cairns

Bats in Lochaber -- Eilidh-Ann Phillips

Evidence of Change -- Pippa Garrard, Whale & Dolphin Trust

Lochaber's Butterflies -- Tom Prescott

Loch Arkaig Pinewoods and Raptors -- Steve Morris (Woodland Trust) and Lewis Pate

Extreme botanising: rare plants of Ben Nevis -- Ian Strachan

Update on Scotland's Birds -- Ben Darvill, BTO

Buglife of Scotland -- Gabrielle Flinn

Mountain Flowers -- Michael Scott

CoCoast and Citizen Science -- Dr Hannah Grist, SAMS

East Greenland - flora and geology -- Noel Williams

The Natural History of Shetland -- Jonathan Willet

The Undersea World of Loch Sunart -- Dr Mark Woombs

The Strontian Lead Mines -- Jim Blair

This land is your land -- Lewis Pate, Nevis Landscape Partnership

My Hill Days - Munro-bagger or Naturalist? -- Peter Gordon, retired RSPB

Ben Lawers -- Dan Watson. NTS

Amphibians and Reptiles of the Highlands -- David O'Brien, HBRG

Benmore Botanic Garden: its plants and recent projects -- Peter Baxter

Peatland ACTION: taking Scotland's restoration challenge head-on -- Christina Wood

Trees for Life and Dundreggan -- Doug Gilbert

Glen Roy -- Jon and Angela Mercer

Drifting, hitching and losing your way - how to get to Lochaber if you're a fish -- Diane Baum, Lochaber Fisheries Trust

Highland Seashore Project -- Dr James Merryweather

Ancient Life at Mistaken Point, Newfoundland -- Noel Williams

Freshwater Pearl Mussels -- Iain Sime

The Ancient Pinewoods of Scotland -- Clifton Bain

Wildlife of Orkney -- Eric Meek

Nature's Art -- Alex Gillespie

Greenland - rocks and wildlife -- Prof Ian Parsons

Conserving wildlife in Lochaber's Forests -- Henry Dobson

Breeding Common Scoters in Scotland -- Mark Hancock

Lichens -- Andy Acton and Anna Griffith

Scottish Wildcats -- Adrian Davis

'American Adventure: the Grand Canyon -- Noel Williams

Marine Aliens - the Silent Invasion -- Dr Elizabeth Cook

Mink and Seabirds in West Scotland -- Dr Clive Craik

Dino Stampede - Tracking Dinosaurs in Scotland -- Dr Neil Clark

Ribbon of Wildness:discovering the Watershed of Scotland -- Peter Wright

Sea Pinks and Samphire, Saltmarsh and Shingle on the West Coast -- Dr Ian Strachan

Saxifrages, Snowbeds and SCM: the Ecologist's Work at Glencoe -- Dan Watson

You call that Woodland -- Dr James Merryweather

Extreme Squirrelling in the Wild West -- Juliet Robinson

Scottish Plant Projects at the Edinburgh Botanic Garden -- Dr Heather McHaffie

Badgers - Tracks, Trails and Signs -- Roger Cottis

Seabirds -- Andy Douse

Bees, Wasps and Ants -- Murdo Macdonald

Basking Sharks -- Colin Speedie

Sailing the Hebrides for whales and dolphins -- Nienke van Geel

Life of the water vole -- Sarah Bentley

Conserving the small things that run the world -- Craig MacAdam

Wild flowers of Scotland -- Dr Sylvia Arnold

Wildlife in an Icelandic summer -- Fraser Symonds

Birds in Scotland - Bird Atlas 2007-11 -- Bob Swann

Wildcats in Scotland -- Ro Scott

Recording wildlife in the Scottish Borders -- Jon Mercer

Lochaber's minerals -- Prof Ian Parsons

Wildlife and development -- Dr Mary Elliott

Dragons & Damsels in Lochaber! -- Jonathan Willet

Lochaber - a hotspot for biodiversity -- Ian Strachan

Sixty degrees south - wildlife in Antarctica -- Fraser Symonds

The John Muir Trust and Ben Nevis -- Alison Austin

Bringing back the beaver -- Martin Gaywood

Entering the twilight zone - recording moths in Lochaber -- Tom Prescott

Studying Scotland's flora -- Jim MacIntosh

The sea eagle in western Scotland and beyond -- Alison MacLennan

The Cairngorms - landscape, ecology and people -- Cathy Mordaunt

Where eagles soar – action for biodiversity in Lochaber -- Dick Balharry

Islands in the Arctic – the natural history of Svalbard -- Fraser Symonds

The Canna Seabird Recovery Project -- Bob Swann

Lochaber Geopark - what is it? -- Keith Hoole

Fungi - not just the red ones with white spots! -- David Genney

Wildlife photography in the Scottish Highlands -- David Whitaker

Making nature journals (joint workshop with Lochaber Art Club) -- Heather Wallis-Murphy

Conservation forestry in Lochaber -- Kevin Peace

Ranging the Rough Bounds -- Tommy McManmon & Jim Manthorpe

The Nevis Partnership -- Martin Faulkner/Christine Welsh

Managing Lochaber's freshwater fisheries -- Lorna Anness

Mosses and liverworts in Lochaber -- Gordon Rothero

Aquatic insect life -- Craig MacAdam

Glen Roy: shaping the landscape -- Dr John Gordon

Wetland birds -- John Dye

Micro-organisms and tropical forest diversity -- Lorraine Hood

Sealife and seals -- Mark Steward

Song of the rolling earth -- Sir John Lister-Kaye

Farming and wildlife -- Alan Boulton

A flavour of Rum -- Sue Scoggins

Conservation of butterflies and moths in Scotland -- Tom Prescott

The work of a Highland Council Ranger -- Eilidh-Ann Madden

Lochaber's landscapes and landforms -- Debbie Greene

A wading bird's guide to good accommodation -- Fraser Symonds

Red squirrels in the Highlands -- Ian Collier

Highland Bumblebees -- Dr Murdo MacDonald

Capercaillie -- Martin Faulkner

Conservation in the forest -- David Whitaker

The work of a Wildlife Liaison Officer -- Insp John Grierson

Beachcombing -- Ian Strachan

Developments at Dunstaffnage Marine Laboratory -- Prof Graham Shimmield

Sunart SAC -- Brian Eardley

Iceland - Slavonian grebes -- Stuart Benn

Freshwater pearl mussels -- Peter Cosgrove

St Kilda -- Dr Mary Elliott

Creag Meagaidh -- Viv Gray

Completely batty -- Anne Youngman

Borneo rainforests -- Donald Kennedy

Abbie's Islands -- Abbie Patterson

Christmas crackers -- Christine Welsh & others

More fish up the creek -- Jon Watt

Underwater images -- David Mitchell