Resources, papers and further information
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Holy Loch Nature Reserve, Main Road A815, Sandbank, Argyll, PA23 8PDAbout
Holy Loch Nature Reserve is managaged and operated by Sandbank Community Development Trust. Ultimately, the reserve is a community owned asset.The trust and the reserve rely wholly on volunteers who offer their time to help maintain and run the reserve on a day-to-day basis.
Funding is drawn from donations by the general public and limited grants which help with specific projects. Doantions, gifts and sponsorship is welcomed.
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Food Web Project
The National Biodiversity Network (NBN) Food Web Project.This was established to assess the reserve’s species richness, to define its ecological interactions, and, ultimately, to measure the health of its ecosystem. We are developing a simple, tablet-based approach for recording species in the field. This project is informing an ecology-led management plan as the reserve faces an uncertain future due to global heating and associated sea level rises. We envisage our ecosystem as an ark of biodiversity from which species can, in the future, colonize newly-restored habitats nearby. An expected-species checklist, based on our undisturbed communities, could be used for monitoring successful colonization of rewilded areas, with the reserve even supplying starter specimens of species that have not arrived there by natural means.
Photographs
All images are copyright of Holy Loch Nature Reserve and their resective owners, unless otherwise acknowledged. Grateful thanks go to Jo Marie, Andrew McFarlane and Stuart Kelly for their contributions.Please share your photos with our Facebook Page or tag us on Instagram and use the hashtag #HLNR or post them on Flickr. We look forward to seeing your photos!
Papers
The incredible residents of Holy Loch Nature Reserve March 2025. Opens in a new window and you may need a PDF viewer such as Adobe.Holy Loch Nature Reserve Vision for the future May 2025. Opens in a new window and you may need a PDF viewer such as Adobe.