The Shiant Isles are an important seabird habitat A group of small islands in the Minch have been declared free of rats for the first time in more than a century.

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 ...

Adam Nicolson owns the Shiant Islands, east of Lewis in the Outer Hebrides. The Shiants are a compact cluster and, like all small islands, offer the marvellous sense that you can encompass them, you ...

A woman who is believed to have been trying to live alone on a remote island off the Scottish coast had her isolation bid cut short after injuring herself in a fall. Emergency crews were called to ...

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.

The exact impact of the non-native rodents on the Shiant islands in the Minch, Outer Hebrides - home to more than 150,000 seabirds that breed there… ...

Shiant means “haunted” or “enchanted” and it’s easy to see how these islands earned the name. ... “Together they bring a pulsating life to the islands,” says presenter Adam Nicholson.

The islands are an important seabird habitat and numbers of some species were in decline, or disappeared, due to rats eating their eggs. Conservationists said the mammals had not been found for ...

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 ...