Climavore is a social enterprise that collaborates with local residents, schools, restaurants, and international researchers and activists, to develop new approaches to regenerative sea-farming and food waste. Closing date 8 June.
NatureScot has launched its consultation on the first voluntary, industry standard for peatland restoration, for anyone involved in caring for peatlands. The guidance includes principles for decision making, legal requirements and good practice, covering protection,...
At Ardmore Bay, Waternish, SSEN plans to lay a cable across a centuries-old maerl bed, a vital blue carbon sink and a declining and threatened habitat. This is despite NatureScot recommendations that Ardmore Bay and the adjacent Loch Bay be designated as a Proposed...
The Waternish Wildlife Alliance is a community group based on Waternish trying to sustain and restore Waternish's unique biodiversity. We are extremely lucky to have a centuries-old, 6-hectare maerl bed, a vital blue carbon sink and sadly a 'declining and threatened'...
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...