A recent photo of the slender groundhopper /Tetrix subulata/ at its newly discovered Scottish stronghold on lowland heath at the threatened An Camas Mòr site in Strathspey.  BSCG is grateful to Buglife (the Invertebrate Conservation Trust ) and the UK Orthopteran recording scheme  for assistance with identification of this find.  So far this year this species has only been recorded on the ACM site in Strathspey but the first find was at Boat of Garten in 2008 and finds now considered to be this species have also been made since then at the Mossie Grantown -on-Spey and at the threatened School Wood site in Nethybridge.

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See more at An Camas Mòr gallery.

BSCG has advised the CNPA today  (18 May) that the blaeberry bee  has now been photographed at School Wood a site threatened by development in Nethybridge. Despite recommendations by Scottish Government Reporters School Wood controversially remains allocated for housing in the Cairngorms National Park Local Plan.
 
 
Caption blaeberry  bee  /Bombus monticola/ (credit BSCG)

BSCG has advised the CNPA today  (18 May) that the blaeberry bee  has now been photographed at School Wood a site threatened by development in Nethybridge. Despite recommendations by Scottish Government Reporters School Wood controversially remains allocated for housing in the Cairngorms National Park Local Plan.

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Blaeberry  bee / Bombus monticola © BSCG

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© 2010 BSCG Gus Jones BSCG

Green tiger beetle Cicindela campestris on An Camas Mòr site. This attractive beetle is exceptionally  common on parts of this site that is threatened by major housing development. Some 120 species of beetle including 3 nationally scarce species  were reported from  a survey undertaken in early June and late July 2008 at this  threatened  site that it can be safely assumed  supports even greater invertebrate biodiversity than has so far been recorded. Tiger beetle is an apt name for this predatory beetle, the only member of its family known form the north of  the UK. BSCG has recorded tiger beetles  at other sites threatened by controversial development including at Carrbridge  and Nethybridge.


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At our Residency Criteria in National Parks talk today Bill McDermott, Chairman of Scottish Campaign for National Parks who worked for many years in the Peak District National Park as an Assistant National Park Officer, said "Despite what Danny Alexander MP was apparently told by the National Park staff, there is no legal reason why the CNPA could not adopt residency criteria. These would restrict availability of new build houses to people living within the National Park or with certain connections to it. Residency criteria would stop the present excessive development that is currently  destroying the natural and culteral heritage of the National Park."
 
 
Residency criteria are successfully  established on the east side of Loch Lomond and English and Welsh national parks.
At our Residency Criteria in National Parks talk today Bill McDermott, Chairman of Scottish Campaign for National Parks who worked for many years in the Peak District National Park as an Assistant National Park Officer, said "Despite what Danny Alexander MP was apparently told by the National Park staff, there is no legal reason why the CNPA could not adopt residency criteria. These would restrict availability of new build houses to people living within the National Park or with certain connections to it. Residency criteria would stop the present excessive development that is currently  destroying the natural and cultural heritage of the National Park."

Residency criteria are successfully  established on the east side of Loch Lomond and English and Welsh national parks.

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Black grouse male (blackcock) - Tetrao tetrix. Photo: Gus Jones BSCG

BSCG are concerned that development proposals at An Camas Mor would destroy habitat for this magnificent woodland grouse.

Kingussie & Vicinity Community Council Presentation to the CNPA Determination Meeting, Duke of Gordon 30th April 2010

Please see PDF document from Ailsa Schofield (Community Councilor)

On behalf of Kingussie & Vicinity Community Council.

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