A group of small islands in the Minch have been declared free of rats for the first time in more than a century. The black rats were not native to the Shiants off Lewis and were thought to be the ...

find a haven on the Shiant Islands, just a few miles southeast of Lewis, Scotland. Nearly 8,000 razorbills and more than 200,000 puffins are estimated to use these islands as their breeding ...

The existing 150-year-old bothy on Eilean an Taighe, an island in the Shiants Two bothies have been proposed as visitor accommodation on the Shiants, a small group of uninhabited islands off Lewis.