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- stimulate public interest and involvement in biological recording;
- collect data on Highland wildlife through surveys;
- publish the results in an annual newsletter and special publications;
- maintain a directory of local specialists and recorders;
- transfer data to and from National Recording Schemes.
- Our geographical base is the Highland Council local authority area, which extends from the north coast of Scotland to Lochaber and the Cairngorms and includes Skye and the Small Isles.
- We have around 125 members, mostly from Highland.
- The membership has enormous expertise in most aspects of natural history.
- The annual subscription is currently £6.
- We are keen to engage both members and the public at large in our work.
- We meet twice a year and organise summer field visits.
- We publish 'Highland Naturalist' with results from the year's surveys every spring.
- In 1998 we published 'Highland Butterflies', in 2006 'Highland Bumblebees', and in 2008 (with Butterfly Conservation Highland Branch) 'Atlas of Butterflies in Highland and Moray' showing the distribution of these insects in Highland and describing their ecology
- We have close links with Inverness Museum, and we are working with SNH to update our records database and make the data available on NBN Gateway.
