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 Ec...
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...
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 readi...
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 victor...
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 th...
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 P...
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 la...
Published in The Conversation, 6th February 2026, by Hannah Cloke, Professor of Hydrology, University of Reading An environmental expert from Nigeria, a climate policy consultant from Kenya, an ocean...
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, Der...
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 m...