Have your say on future of Rum national nature reserve

Local people and visitors are being asked to comment on Scottish Natural Heritage’s proposals for the management of Rum national nature reserve.

A public consultation exercise will run from this Friday (July 24th) to October 11th aimed at finding out peoples’ thoughts on management over the next six years.

Working closely with the community on Rum, SNH is looking to develop a range of high quality visitor facilities which will improve people’s enjoyment and understanding of the reserve.

Susan Davies, SNH North Operations Director, said: “This consultation is important because it allows people to tell us what they think about the reserve and its management.  Rum holds a special interest for many people and we’d be delighted to hear their views during this consultation.

“This is a chance for anyone with an interest in Rum to have a say on what they think its future management should include.  I am also particularly keen to get feedback from visitors who travel across to Rum and stay on the island during their visit to the national nature reserve.

“Rum is one of our oldest NNRs having been declared in 1957 and SNH has management responsibilities for the designated site along with conservation, study and research work, which we are working towards.  It is our hope that this consultation will allow us to plan the way forward together with the people of Scotland.”

Rum has mountain-top colony of Manx shearwaters, around a third of the world’s population of this seabird.  The reserve was the base for the first sea eagle reintroduction programme in 1975 and has a golden eagles and a thriving population of otters.   It attracts around 10,000 visitors a year.

To find out more about the proposals and make your views known log on to: www.snh.org.uk/nnr-scotland/reserve.asp?NNRId=22

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