A group of small islands in the Minch have been declared free of rats for the first time in more than a century. The black rats were not native to the Shiants off Lewis and were thought to be the ...

The internationally important seabird colony of the Shiant Isles has officially been declared rat-free following a four year programme to eradicate an invasive species of rodent. CATHERINE HARTE ...

1. Introduced predators are a major threat to native island populations, yet direct evidence of predation is often lacking, especially when it is difficult to detect by traditional dietary methods. 2.

Storm petrels have been recorded for the first time on islands where rats came ashore from shipwrecks. The small seabird was seen at a burrow, on the Shiant Islands, by conservationists using night ...

A project to wipe out non-native black rats from a group of small Scottish islands has been awarded almost £450,000 of European Union funding. The rats, whose ancestors were thought to have come ...

ATTEMPTS are to be made to eradicate a population of black rats on a group of Scottish islands as part of a £900,000 project to safeguard threatened seabird colonies. The exact impact of the ...

RAT-catchers used peanut butter and chocolate treats to lure thousands of rodents to their deaths in a £1 million project to eradicate vermin from a tiny Outer Hebridean island group. Exterminators ...

I never thought I would find myself writing warmly about a book by a Scottish laird. Adam Nicolson owns the Shiant Islands, east of Lewis in the Outer Hebrides. The Shiants are a compact cluster and, ...