{"id":444,"date":"2016-08-06T16:29:54","date_gmt":"2016-08-06T15:29:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/new.culagwoods.org.uk\/?page_id=444"},"modified":"2017-04-24T22:51:13","modified_gmt":"2017-04-24T21:51:13","slug":"sssi","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/culagwoods.org.uk\/index.php\/little-assynt-estate\/sssi\/","title":{"rendered":"SSSI"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<div class=\"Normal-P\" style=\"padding-left: 100px; padding-right: 100px;\">\nThe Little Assynt Estate boasts a number of formal designations, amongst them the Assynt Lochs Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI) and the Loch Beannach Islands SSSI.<br \/><\/br><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/culagwoods.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Waterlillies-300x152.jpg\" alt=\"Little Assynt Leaflet inside (for print)\" width=\"300\" height=\"152\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-576\" srcset=\"https:\/\/culagwoods.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Waterlillies-300x152.jpg 300w, https:\/\/culagwoods.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Waterlillies-768x389.jpg 768w, https:\/\/culagwoods.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Waterlillies-150x76.jpg 150w, https:\/\/culagwoods.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Waterlillies.jpg 1004w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>The dark waters of the lochs are home to exotic-<wbr \/>looking water lilies, with earlier flowers like bogbean in shallower places.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/culagwoods.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Bogbean-193x300.jpg\" alt=\"Little Assynt Leaflet inside\" width=\"193\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-497\" srcset=\"https:\/\/culagwoods.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Bogbean-193x300.jpg 193w, https:\/\/culagwoods.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Bogbean-96x150.jpg 96w, https:\/\/culagwoods.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Bogbean.jpg 591w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 193px) 100vw, 193px\" \/><br \/><\/br>Brown trout are found throughout, sometimes with eels and sea trout, all pursued by otters which are surprisingly numerous.<br \/><\/br>An important resident is the freshwater mussel, which may live for up to eighty years and, among the birds, divers (both black and red throated) nest on the shores of some lochs.<br \/><\/br>Beautiful Loch Beannach is, in a way, the heart of Little Assynt. \u00a0Its wooded islands are an important remnant of woodland which once extended over much of the adjoining countryside giving a covering rich in ground flora.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/culagwoods.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/LAE-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"Little Assynt Leaflet inside\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-501\" srcset=\"https:\/\/culagwoods.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/LAE-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/culagwoods.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/LAE-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/culagwoods.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/LAE-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/culagwoods.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/LAE-150x113.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p> The Little Assynt Estate boasts a number of formal designations, amongst them the Assynt Lochs Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI) and the Loch Beannach Islands SSSI.<br \/><\/br><br \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/culagwoods.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Waterlillies-300x152.jpg\" alt=\"Little Assynt Leaflet inside (for print)\" width=\"300\" height=\"152\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-576\" srcset=\"https:\/\/culagwoods.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Waterlillies-300x152.jpg 300w, https:\/\/culagwoods.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Waterlillies-768x389.jpg 768w, https:\/\/culagwoods.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Waterlillies-150x76.jpg  \u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/culagwoods.org.uk\/index.php\/little-assynt-estate\/sssi\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"parent":530,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"template-page-with-intro.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-444","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - 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