The stars they stole from you
Why Dark Skies Matter to Us All by Ian Redfield One night, a few weeks ago, my partner and I were having a ramble through town, and on a side street, we caught a bit of faint starlight. She was excited by what I found…
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St Andrews University Biodiversity Working Group members sweep Nature of Scotland Awards
For more than a decade, the Nature of Scotland Awards have honoured outstanding achievements for Scotland’s wildlife and wild places. On Thursday night (the 20th November 2025) last week, 400 people from all over…
The Moths of St Andrews
by Alice Mortimer VIP Biodiversity Literacy student (all photos Alice apart from yellow underwing, John Anderson) I have spent close to half my life captivated by moths. The fascination began seven years ago, when I…
Summer Surveying St Andrews
✿ ✿ ~ by Cori Birkin Dappled sunlight filtering down through the trees, the St Andrews Botanic Gardens quiet except from a few early visitors, the morning birdsong, and a group of students crouched poring over their…
Otter on campus
The Biodiversity Literacy team got a photo of one of the local otters as part of this year’s camera trap challenge. It was crossing the Kinnesburn before heading through University land at the beginning of February.…
Website for Biodiversity at St Andrews – WIP
Please bear with us – this site is work in progress, but hopefully captures the essence of what we are doing for biodiversity on University of St Andrews land. We hope to have everything up to date here by May 2025,…