Family That Owned This ‘Wildlife Wonder of the World’ for 300 years Sells Bass Rock to Protect 100,000 Gannet Seabirds

A globally-important colony for seabirds has been sold to the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds to ensure the 100,000 gannets and 10,000 puffins that live there will benefit from top-notch conservation management. Owned by the Scottish noble Dalrymple family for 320 years, Bass Rock and the neighboring uninhabited island of Craigleith have long