It will have been hard to miss if you are on social media, but particularly for Voice readers on Arran!… Monday 2nd March is the start of Arran Environment Week, a festival organised by Arran Eco Savvy in conjunction with many of the island’s community groups and organisations. Running from the 2nd to 7th of …
By Sally Campbell, with thanks also to Ariana Densham, Greenpeace The Global Ocean Treaty entered into force on 17th January 2026. The Treaty is now international law – the most significant victory for ocean protection and restoration. Greenpeace has been campaigning for 15 years with incredible supporters. Together with many organisations and hundreds of thousands of people …
The above quote is from the late US civil rights activist and politician John Lewis. Featured image credit: Markus Spiske on pexels.com The right to dissent by Sue Weaver In July last year I was reading the Unbearable Lightness of Being in a Cardiff police cell. In there I found an answer to my lingering …
My dear partner, David Simpkin died on 3rd September 2025 and to give him the best of send offs, I decided to take some of his ashes to a holy site in Bodhgaya in North Eastern India. For Buddhists this is a very sacred place. It is where the Buddha finally realised a state of …
Published on 18th February 2026 in The Conversation, by David Mead, Professor of UK Human Rights Law, University of East Anglia. Featured image credit: Guy Joben on pexels.com The High Court has ruled that the UK government’s proscription of the group Palestine Action was unlawful. This is a welcome decision for advocates of free speech and the right …
A news report by the Institute of Commonwealth Studies published on 6th February 2026 The Institute of Commonwealth Studies has welcomed a landmark vote yesterday (5rh February 2026) by the Scottish Parliament to advance the Ecocide (Scotland) Bill, placing Scotland on track to become the first nation in the UK to criminalise severe environmental destruction. …
New laws for nature At the end of January, after three days of debate in the chamber, the Scottish Parliament passed the Natural Environment Bill. This will see targets for nature recovery put into law, meaning that future governments can be held accountable. But there’s still a lot of work to be done. By Juliet …
With news of the satellite-tagged Hen Harriers in the Voice this issue, it was interesting to find a similar theme discussed in The Arran Naturalist, issue No.13, (1990). In the following article, Derrick Warner discusses the details of some of the ringed birds that were discovered in Arran in the 1980s, tracking the birds’ movements …
News of Hen Harrier tracking from Mar Lodge Estate National Nature Reserve NTS and RSPB last month: One of our hen harriers, Marianne was satellite-tagged in 2022 and we have been able to follow her movements for the last three and a half years. You can see she has had three focal points of activity …
There is currently a consultation open on the forestry in the South of Arran, with a date set for a meeting at Whiting Bay Hall on 24th March. The area includes Carn Ban, Glenashdale Falls, Giants Graves and the Glenashdale Iron Age fort, as well as the Garbad and Aucheleffan forest blocks. The main objectives …