page_title: Loch Lomond National Nature Reserve
section_title: Conservation designations
hierarchical_section_title: Loch Lomond National Nature Reserve / Conservation designations
caption_attribution_description: English: Loch Lomond Nature Reserve. Adjacent to the River Endrick
context_page_description: Loch Lomond National Nature Reserve encompasses 430 hectares of land at the southeastern part of Loch Lomond in the council areas of Stirling and West Dunbartonshire, in Scotland. It covers the islands of Inchcailloch, Clairinsh, Torrinch, Creinch and Aber Isle, alongside areas of woodland and wetlands to either side of the mouth of the Endrick Water. Scottish Natural Heritage owns two parts of the reserve - the island of Inchcailloch and part of Gartfairn Wood - and the rest is privately owned. The reserve is managed by a partnership consisting of SNH, the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds and the Loch Lomond and The Trossachs National Park, along with the owners and tenants of the land under agreements. Within this framework SNH directly manage the islands of Clairinsh, Inchcailloch, Torrinch and Creinch, and land to the north of the Endrick Water. The RSPB manages the area to the south of the Endrick Water, and the National Park manages visitor facilities on Inchcailloch.
  The first part of Loch Lomond to be declared a national nature reserve was Clairinsh in 1958; the reserve was subsequently extended three times to reach its present size.
context_section_description: The national nature reserve (NNR) holds a number of other overlapping conservation designations. The Endrick Mouth and Islands Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI) is almost directly coincident with the NNR, whilst the Portnellan - Ross Priory - Claddochside SSSI overlaps with the NNR at the western edge of the mainland section. The Endrick Water Special Area of Conservation (SAC) covers the Endrick Water, including the section through the NNR, and the Loch Lomond Woods SAC includes the islands of Inchcailloch, Clairinsh, Torrinch and Creinch. These islands, and the area of the NNR to the south of the Endrick Water, form the Loch Lomond Ramsar site. Most of the mainland portion of the NNR also forms part of the Loch Lomond Special Protection Area (SPA). The NNR is classified as a Category IV protected area by the International Union for Conservation of Nature.
caption: Loch Lomond Nature Reserve. Adjacent to the River Endrick
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