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Day to day Management of the project

Project Manager.
The overall project manager is Dr Richard Luxmoore, Head of Nature C.onservation at the National Trust for Scotland. Richard should be contacted if you require information about the back ground to the project, steering group matters, the general enquiries about the methodology being used or dissemination visits to the island. He can be contacted by e-mail at rluxmoore@nts.org.uk

Project Administrator.
Bob Swann is the project administrator. Bob is responsible for the day to day running of the project. This includes provision of accomodation, supplies and equipment, co-ordination of volunteers, keeping financial accounts and providing reports to the EU. Bob can be contacted by e-mail at robert.swann
@homecall.co.uk

WMIL Manager.
Biz Bell is in charge of the WMIL team on the island. She organises the daily work schedule on the island and looks after the volunteers. She also ascertains what equipment and supplies are required. Biz maintains the database on bait take and the monitoring grid and produces a weekly report to the steering group and islanders which details how the project is proceeding. Biz can be contacted at WMIL@clear.net.nz

Bird Silhouette The Canna seabird recovery project is run by The National Trust for Scotland with the Royal Zoological Society of Scotland as a project partner.

The project has been funded by a large grant from the EU LIFE Nature fund, with additional funds from the National Trust for Scotland, Scottish Natural Heritage and the Royal Zoological Society of Scotland.

LIFE Nature

LIFE Nature is part of the LIFE programme. Established in 1992, LIFE is the EU's financial instrument supporting environmental and nature conservation projects throughout the EU, in candidate countries and in some neighbouring regions. The general objective of LIFE is to contribute to the development and implementation of EU environmental policy by financing specific actions. The two other components of LIFE, LIFE Environment and LIFE Third Countries, focus on innovative environmental protection measures, and environmental protection in a number of countries neighbouring the EU. Since 1992, some 2400 projects have received EU funding under the LIFE programme, representing an EU contribution of € 1,4 billion to the protection of the environment.

More information about LIFE-Nature can be found at:
europa.eu.int/comm/environment/life/life/nature.htm

Project Management.

The project has been set up and is managed by the National Trust for Scotland, who are the benificiaries of the EU Life Nature funds. Following a tendering process the trust appointed Wildlife Management International Ltd., from New Zealand to undertake the work on Canna. They also advertised for volunteers to assist the WMIL team on the island. The RZSS role is to undertake responsibity for some of the biodiversity monitoring work. They also run the linked project which aims to maintain a population of Canna's unique woodmice off the island during the eradication campaign.

The Steering Group

The National trust for Scotland set up a steering group to oversee the succesful implementation of the project. As well as individuals from the trust a wide range of other organisations are represented on the steering group including the RZSS, Scottish Natural Heritage, Joint Nature Conservation Committee, Highland Ringing Group, Royal Society for the Protection of Birds, The Scottish Executive, Central Science Laboratory and the Canna community. Meetings are held 2 or 3 times a year as necessary, making use, when appropriate of video conferencing facilities.

Support for the project was also received from the Scottish Wildlife Trust, IUCN captive breeding specialist group and Caledonian MacBrayne.

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