by Phil Knott If you’d like to volunteer in the tree nursery or woodland during the next months, please join Phil Knott’s mailing list by emailing phil@broadfordandstrath.org for dates and times of volunteer sessions. Activities will include: Collecting tree seeds...
SRUC’s Barony campus near Dumfries is running two one-week courses on peatland assessment and restoration: start dates are 22 September or 6 October, with funding support available. Covering peatland ecology and hydrology and the causes of peatland degradation,...
The Peatland Training Fund will provide financial support to over-16s living in Scotland, who want to develop skills for a peatland career. People already working in peatland restoration who would like additional training can also apply. The aim is to increase the...
Broadford Community Tree Nursery is looking for volunteers for the coming year! Project Officer Phil will welcome applications from all ages and abilities, with no experience necessary. The first job this coming autumn is tree seed collection at various locations,...
This blog describes the work on Skye and Raasay of the Climavore project, a research platform and agency that questions how to eat as humans change climates. Climavore's work includes an oyster table that is covered and exposed by the tides, and apprenticeships for...
The John Muir Trust is proposing a Carbon Emissions Land Tax (CELT) aiming to change land management techniques to increase the capacity of Scotland's land to soak up large amounts of greenhouse gases. Landowners would be taxed on the extent to which their land falls...
The consultation is seeking input to plans for moving away from peat products, starting with peat-related gardening products, to protect peatlands from further damage as part of the overall Climate Change plan.While the primary focus should be on commercial peat...
This new short animation explores the extraordinary story of peat and carbon, by IUCN UK Peatland Programme.
Jonathon Porritt explains how securing a stable climate for the future of humankind depends as much on recarbonising natural systems, as it does on decarbonising our industrial economy.
With funding from NatureScot’s Peatland Action programme John Muir Trust is restoring 36.5 hectares of peat bog on its Strathaird estate.