As part of becoming an Ullapool Sea Saver, the young people choose a species they are especially interested in and go and research it, putting together a fact file to share what they discover with others. By doing so they become an Ambassador for ‘their’ species. We try to find mentors and specialists from other groups and organisations that they can speak to who can advise on and verify the content for them, encouraging them to fully understand the importance of their chosen species and also help with advice on how best to help promote and protect that species.
The Nature Champion Initiative launched by Scottish Environment encourages Members of the Scottish Parliament (MSPs) to lend political support to the protection of Scotland’s threatened wildlife by becoming ‘Nature Champions.’ This is a great scheme that means that nature, and specific species, are represented at the Scottish Parliament (example here). Where possible, we connect our sea saver Ambassadors to their MSP Nature Champion counterpart.
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Choose a species
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Research
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Species Fact File
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Species Amassador
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Species Mentors
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