Forestry and woodlands
Work to plant woodland and restore peatlands in Scotland has begun as part of a project to capture the University of Edinburgh’s carbon emissions.
- Read more about Forest and peatland restoration scheme sows seed for net zero
- Log in to post comments
Five areas - in the Scottish Borders, Galloway, Lochaber, Loch Awe and Tay Forest - are in the running to be Scotland’s next National Park.
- Read more about Nominations for new National Park
- Log in to post comments
Researchers at The James Hutton Institute are working with a community-owned woodland in Aberdeenshire to explore how people can take a greater role in deciding how solutions to the climate and biodiversity crises are used in their local environments.
The project, involving Murray Park Community Woodland in Alford, is one of seven across Europe and Scandinavia as part of £4.6 million international project called “COEVOLVERS”.
- Read more about Community-owned woodland in Aberdeenshire to help shape new nature schemes
- Log in to post comments
People around Scotland are doing more than ever to help save threatened bees, moths, and hoverflies, according to a new NatureScot report.
- Read more about Swarm of support for Scotland's pollinators
- Log in to post comments
Scottish Forestry is investing £2 million towards timber transport projects across Scotland. The funding will help decarbonise the forestry sector and reduce the impacts of timber lorries on communities and the environment.
A new project from Trees for Life and Woodland Trust Scotland aims to discover Scotland’s ‘lost’ native pinewoods – home to wild Scots pines with an ancestry that can be traced back to the end of the last ice age – so they can be saved and restored before it’s too late.
- Read more about Finding Scotland’s ‘lost’ ice age pinewoods
- Log in to post comments