Highlands Rewilding are excited to be working with Seawilding as they expand their successful seagrass restoration efforts by trialling transplantation methods at new locations beyond Loch Craignish.

A collaborative effort is underway to protect one of Scotland’s most threatened marine species, the native oyster Ostrea Edulis. Together, Highlands Rewilding, NatureScot, Friends of the Sound of Jura, and the Tayvallich community are taking practical steps to dissuade visitors from removing oysters from Loch Sween.

Four new signs have now been installed at key intertidal access points around Loch Sween MPA (Marine Protected Area), raising awareness of the legal protections surrounding native oysters and the urgent need to safeguard this fragile population.  

Beneath the calm waters of Argyll’s sea lochs lies one of Scotland’s most important, and least visible, ecosystems: seagrass meadows. These flowering plants form underwater forests that support fish, protect coastlines, and store carbon for thousands of years. In this blog, our Marine Lead, Dr David Smyth, looks at the results from a recent survey of Tayvallich’s very own seagrass meadow.