What started as a woodland buyout in Glengarry has grown into something much bigger 🌲
Glengarry Community Development Trust is using community ownership to support cabins, crofts, and local jobs backed by cooperative governance and shared values.
📖 Read more: buff.ly/jXi5Hdk
📢 New op-ed from Michael Russell, Chair of the Scottish Land Commission
Survey shows 96% of people believe Scotland still needs further land reform.
In his op-ed, Michael Russell reflects on this, the Land Reform Bill, why progress matters, and why the journey isn’t over.
🔗 buff.ly/Dz9wEQm
NOVEMBER UPDATE Who Owns Scotland now published with total of 4900 landholdings (76.64% rural Scotland). The project is financed solely by subscription income. New subscriptions welcome - they start at £5 whoownsscotland.org.uk
Another great event from @thesoilassociation.bsky.social ⬇️
Episode 2 of "Let's Talk Better Forestry" has now landed! Tune in and listen to independent forester Andrew Macqueen join Morag Paterson to share the variety in his day-to-day work, and the experimental approaches he’s exploring.
Worth a listen!
www.forestpolicygroup.org/news/ep-2-le...
Another excellent contribution to the forestry world by FPG!
We are delighted to announce our next webinar offering: "Who Owns Scotland's Forests and Does it Matter?" Wednesday 17th September, 10-12 noon.
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/who-owns-s...
What would it mean to complete Scotland’s land reform journey?
In Part 1 of our ScotLand Futures blog series, 4 contributors share bold ideas & reflections on land, power & the public interest:
Deborah Long, Dee Ward, John Watt & Morag Paterson
Read: www.landcommission.gov.scot/news-events/...
We are delighted to announce that we officially launched our first podcast episode today!
"Let's Talk Better Forestry" podcasts begin with a conversation with Claire Wightman, forester at TreeStory. Morag Paterson interviews Claire to hear all about what "Better Forestry" means to her.
A light purple and yellow dusk sky over a darkening sea with bushy grass in the foreground with a sandy path running through it to the beach.
A path running through the valley between two lush green hillsides, dotted with dark green trees.
A path through grass under the canopies of towering oak trees. There are benches dotted throughout the grass in the distance.
Great Big Green Week has begun!
It’s the UK’s biggest celebration of community action to tackle climate change and protect nature. We can all make small swaps, large swaps and swaps that change the system, to make our communities better.
You can find out more here: buff.ly/F7D5T2O
Sundew
Give peat the boot for #30DaysWild! 🥾🌱💚
Challenge yourself to go peat-free and help save vital habitats, store carbon, and give wildlife a fighting chance.
Plant smart, plant wild! Learn more on how to go peat free at home 👉 buff.ly/YJB66cF
New report from the Just Transition Commission on Forestry and Housing in Dumfries and Galloway @wtscotsocial.bsky.social @scottishlandcom.bsky.social
@forestpolicygroup.bsky.social @forestryjournal.bsky.social www.justtransition.scot/publication/...
FPG are delighted to share our 2nd edition of our quarterly newsletter.
To view or download, click the link below. If you would like to have a copy wing its way direct to your inbox, then complete the form at the bottom of the linked page.
There's one month left to apply for the #Ayrshire Small Scale Tree Planting Grant - up to £1,000 per project available for #treeplanting on areas up to 0.25ha in #EastAyrshire and #SouthAyrshire within the #gsabiosphere boundary. Apply now and please share!
www.gsabiosphere.org.uk/natureandwil...
Thanks to all who joined us for a screening of 'Heart of the Biosphere' in Ochiltree today. Next showing will be alongside the brilliant feature 'Why Not Scotland?' at Ayr Town Hall on 27/03 for #EarthHour 2025, thanks to Ayr Film Society for inviting us. To book: www.ayrfilmsociety.co.uk/about-3-22
🦇Did you know there is a rainforest in the UK? 😲
On the 28 Feb, Elliot, Project Officer for our Gobaith Coetir/ Woodland Hope project, is leading a FREE child-friendly guided walk exploring the fascinating lives of bats in the Celtic Rainforest!
To book your place, email ebastos@bats.org.uk.
It has already kickstarted nearly 80 careers in forestry. Now a 'trailblazing' degree apprenticeship scheme is on the hunt for its latest cohort of future foresters.
🔗 www.forestryjournal.co.uk/news/2494011...
#beaver droning with Devon Wildlife Trust today. Amazing seeing the dams and wetland spread all the way across the valley bottom now at this site #NatureBasedSolutions @exeter.ac.uk @uoe-creww.bsky.social
🔴 NEW: The King, JK Rowling, billionaires and politicians are among those who have been given tens of millions of pounds of taxpayer forestry subsidies, prompting claims that wealthy landowners are prioritised over rural communities.
Find out more: theferret.scot/polit...
The BBC has once again caught Drax burning wood from primary forest in Canada, previously untouched by man, a huge carbon store and obvs prime wildlife habitat.
Drax seems to be reducing its use of such wood, but also hiding the extent to which it used it in previous years – contrary to regulations
Curlew Conservation Monitoring Officer - Natur am Byth! With @rspb.bsky.social based at Cefni Valley, Anglesey Ynys Môn with @RSPBCymru.bsky.social full-time for 3 months
Super excited to be interviewed by Raman for my Instagram Live with @ukyouthfornature.bsky.social on Wednesday evening!
Excited to discuss all things nature recovery, National Parks, my pond research, and more! Promises to be a great conversation if you can tune in!
Hi, I’m Dr. Suzanne Simard, & I’ve dedicated my life to studying the deep, interconnected relationships that shape our forests.
My research and creation of The Mother Tree Project have worked to amplify the world where trees, plants, & fungi communicate & support each other. 🌎🌲
Rain on the way to LA brings fears of toxic ash in wake of #wildfires
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
#IIFF #Forestry
Forest Craftsperson with Forestry and Land Scotland, based in Ae or Straiton, full-time position
Foresters with Forestry and Land Scotland, full-time positions based in Straiton and Selkirk
A protection order has been granted for a number of orchard trees threatened by plans to build a new busway.
🔗 www.forestryjournal.co.uk/news/2487363...
A 29-metre-tall Cedrus deodara, planted in 1859, was among a Botanic Garden's 15 trees damaged during Storm Eowyn.
🔗 www.forestryjournal.co.uk/news/2488678...
Check out our latest paper on🌲 Pinus contorta 🌲 invasion in Iceland! Promoted as an "easy fix" to climate change, its use exacerbates the biodiversity crisis, threatening native ecosystems. #InvasiveSpecies #BiodiversityCrisis #ClimateAction #Forestry #Ecology neobiota.pensoft.net/article/1340...
🦇 Bat Record Keeping Webinar on Mon 24 Feb, 1pm-2pm.
Join the Connecting People and Landscapes team to explore what bat records to keep, how to collect them and why these records are invaluable to citizen science.
FREE but booking needed: www.tickettailor.com/events/bctev...
📷(c) Dani Smith
Still spaces available for our final #Youngwilders x @southdownsnp.bsky.social 'Walk and Talk' event for young people 18-30! A great chance to meet other young people interested in nature and to feed into the Partnership Management Plan!
@campaign4parks.bsky.social @friendssouthdowns.bsky.social
