Resources & Links

These organisations are all involved in conserving our wildlife, both within the National Park and further afield. Their websites are often packed with interesting information about the plants and animals you can find here - and how you can get involved in protecting them too:

Argyll & Bute Council www.argyll-bute.gov.uk

Atlantic Salmon Trust www.atlanticsalmontrust.org

Bat Conservation Trust www.bats.org.uk

British Geological Survey www.bgs.ac.uk

Buglife www.buglife.org.uk/AboutBuglife/Buglife+Scotland

Bumblebee Conservation Trust www.bumblebeeconservation.org.uk

Butterfly Conservation Scotland www.butterfly-conservation.org

Central Scotland Bat Group www.csbats.org.uk

Deer Commission Scotland www.dcs.gov.uk

Forestry Commission Scotland www.forestry.gov.uk/scotland

Hebridean Whale & Dolphin Trust www.whaledolphintrust.co.uk

Loch Lomond & The Trossachs National Park Authority www.lochlomond-trossachs.org

Marine Conservation Society www.mcsuk.org

The Mammal Society www.mammal.org.uk

National Trust for Scotland www.nts.org.uk

Plantlife www.plantlife.org.uk/uk/plantlife-scotland.html

RSPB www.rspb.org.uk

Scottish Forest Alliance www.scottishforestalliance.org.uk

SNH www.snh.gov.uk

Stirling Council www.stirling.gov.uk

Trees for Life www.treesforlife.org.uk

The Vincent Wildlife Trust www.vwt.org.uk

West Dunbarton Council www.west-dunbarton.gov.uk

Woodland Trust www.woodlandtrust.org.uk

These websites also have lots of brilliant information, video or audio clips:

ARKive www.arkive.org

BBC www.bbc.co.uk/nature/species

Welcome to Scotland www.welcometoscotland.com/about-scotland/wildlifearoundscotland

There are a wealth of books available to tell you more. In compiling this website we found the following extremely useful:

Flora Britannica by Richard Mabey published by Sinclair Stevenson ISBN 1 85619377 2

Flora Celtica by William Milliken and Sam Bridgewater published by Birlinn Ltd ISBN10: 1 84158 303

Birds Britannica by Mark Cocker and Richard Mabey published by Random House ISBN-10: 0701169079

Loch Lomondside by John Mitchell published by Collins New Naturalists ISBN-10: 0002201461

The Birds of the Western Palearctic by David Snow and Christopher Perrins published by Oxford University Press ISBN-10: 019854099X

Last Child in the Woods by Richard Louv published by Atlantic Books www.atlantic-books.co.uk ISBN 978 1 84887082 6