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 Dumfries & Galloway, the Scottish Borders and Ayrshire & Arran regions of Southern Scotland are lands of breathtaking scenery and areas of outstanding natural beauty, wilderness and romance.
Biosphere
status has recently been awarded by UNESCO to Dumfries and Galloway and south Ayrshire under the Man and the Biosphere
(MAB) programme.
It was originally conferred on South West Scotland
because of the important upland habitats found in the National Nature
Reserves at Silver Flowe and Cairnsmore of Fleet. These include
extensive mire, blanket bog, montane acid grassland and wet heath.
These areas are also home to nationally important breeding bird
and invertebrate populations.
The Biosphere designation now recognises
many unique habitats within or close to the Galloway Forest Park which attracts around
800,000 visitors each year.
Follow in the footsteps of Burns from his birthplace in Alloway through to his final resting place in Dumfries or those of Sir Walter Scott through Selkirk. Marvel at the grand abbeys of Melrose or Jedburgh or simply take in the quaint atmospheres in the abundance of towns and villages virtually unchanged by the passing years.
East to West visitors to southern Scotland are never far from water. From the Galloway Hills with their many hidden lochs, burns and waterfalls to the Irish Sea which separates Scotland from the Emerald Isle and the Isle of Mann to the beatiful Solway coastline to the wild and exposed North Sea coast.
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