This week’s edition of The Orcadian is now available in shops and online. On the front page, the family behind Fernvalley Wildlife Centre say they are “tired of fighting” with Orkney Islands Council’s ...
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Orkney's war on stoats
The Orkney Native Wildlife Project (ONWP), led by the RSPB ... and soon began to threaten the island's ecosystem. Fast breeders, with large appetites and advanced predatory skills, they have ...
which is home to diverse wildlife populations, including over a million breeding pairs of penguins. The South Orkney Islands lie roughly 650km north-east of the Antarctic Peninsula and 1250km ...
The megaberg recently broke free from its position north of the South Orkney Islands ... grounds for the wildlife - seals and penguins mostly - that breed on the island.' ...
Seventy-seven long-finned pilot whales washed ashore on Thursday on Sanday island, a part of the Orkney archipelago off Scotland. Sixty-five of them were already dead, the British Divers Marine ...
Stromness in the Orkney Islands ... beyond those most famous sites, the island shorelines groan with wildlife and there are sea stacks alive with kittiwakes and pocked with gurning sea caves.