The ban needs to be enforced from a conservation perspective I think, it's the easiest option, higher fines/punishment for serious disturbance would be better but that would mean new legislation. Some of the stuff I've seen there is shocking, fires left burning, tents and sleeping bags on the fires, axe marks everywhere. Also although the LRA opened things up for everyone, the type of people that create all this mess are generally the type of people that would have done it anyway, pre LRA. The problem is that it's only an hour from Glasgow, and although you do get this kind of disturbance elsewhere (you always will) it's not any where near as serious as it gets at Loch Lomond. It is a very sensitive area ecologically and is home to major native Scottish species, Osprey, Pine Marten etc...
As for the Wallabies on Inchconnachan, come on, they're great and they've been successful on the Island but they are not meant to be there and they are destroying sensitive habitat thus ruining it for the native flora and fauna.
Surely you'll be fine camping up Ben Lomond and that area, who knows? it's all very sad.
Education has to be the answer, from an early age, if we are to be deserved of these type of rights.
Edit: Capercaillie on Loch Lomond??
As for the Wallabies on Inchconnachan, come on, they're great and they've been successful on the Island but they are not meant to be there and they are destroying sensitive habitat thus ruining it for the native flora and fauna.
Surely you'll be fine camping up Ben Lomond and that area, who knows? it's all very sad.
Education has to be the answer, from an early age, if we are to be deserved of these type of rights.
Edit: Capercaillie on Loch Lomond??
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