Montrose Basin is one of the Scottish Wildlife Trust’s flagship reserves, famous for its huge numbers of overwintering geese and swans.

Throughout Montrose Visitor Centre is busy with tourists from both home and abroad. The Scottish Wildlife Trust offers a range of volunteering activities at the Basin, from welcoming visitors and providing information, to practical hands-on activities.

Further information can be found here. 

SmartRivers is a scientifically robust citizen science toolkit.  Aquatic invertebrates can tell us a lot about the health and condition of our waterways; they can be an indicator of nutrient enrichment or low oxygen content. This information can therefore be used as a basis for altering land management, which can ultimately help protect the fish and invertebrates living in our waterways.

Volunteers take kick-samples at one of the 5 sites in the catchment, twice a year - once in spring and once in autumn.  The samples are submitted for professional analysis and results are shared with volunteers.  

For more information on SmartRivers please see here and to get involved in aquatic invertebrate monitoring in the catchment, please contact Ann-Marie MacMaster by email in the first instance.

The Cairngorms National Park volunteer programme works with AngusAlive Rangers at Glen Doll on habitat and estate management such as path maintenance, fencing and invasive species control, as well as monitoring and surveying of species such as raptors.

The Mountains and The People project is the largest upland path project undertaken in the UK to date. As part of this project volunteers built upland paths to Loch Brandy and to sites in and around Glen Doll.

Further information can be found here or  contact volunteers@cairngorms.co.uk

Saving Scotland’s Red Squirrels has been working to ensure Red squirrels continue to have a home in Scotland since 2009 and in many of the project areas, Red squirrel populations are making a recovery.

Volunteers make a valuable contribution to securing the future for Red squirrels in Scotland by monitoring Red and Grey squirrel populations, conducting food abundance surveys, managing the spread of Grey squirrels in strategic areas and helping with administrative tasks.

Further information can be found here.