Invasive Plant Control Project in the Stinchar and Girvan catchments supported by Tesco’s Bags of Help Fund **UPDATE TO VOTING DATES**
Please note new voting dates below. With funding from Tesco, ART will be working with volunteers on the River Stinchar and Water of Girvan to control Himalayan balsam, Japanese knotweed, skunk cabbage and giant hogweed in 2017. ART’s invasive plant control...Follow up to Kilkerran Erosion
(See earlier posts from April 2016 if you would like to read more on this erosion control) After the volunteers and Trust’s effort to try and bring some improvements to the eroding banks at Kilkerran on the Girvan earlier this Spring, Muir and I revised...Crayfish trapping continues on the Ayr catchment
We recommenced our American signal crayfish (ASC) trapping efforts on Tuesday of this week on the tributary of the Ayr where we caught a single large male towards the end of last year. After a late spring, water temperatures have warmed sufficiently for trapping to...Giant Hogweed Control 2016
We have now secured the necessary funding to continue with Giant Hogweed control across Ayrshire. We are just waiting on the required licences from SEPA but hope to start control within the next couple of weeks. We have been controlling this invasive non native plant...Crayfish Control…and hands on experience
ART have experience of controlling American Signal Crayfish gained during the eradication attempt at Ballachulish Quarry in 2012 when ART provided 3 staff to assist. This was a large but isolated quarry pond that had been infested by an original release of...Photo Gallery
River Map Prints
We have three fine art map prints available to buy.
