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Scotland’s Landscape Monitoring Programme
Publication of three new indicators: Urban Greenspace, Local Landscape Areas and Urban Vacant & Derelict Land Background Our landscapes can make a significant contribution to the way we live and our overall wellbeing. Importantly they contribute to biodiversity and climate change … Continue reading
Posted in Landscape Monitoring, Uncategorized
Tagged Landscape, Landscape Indicators, Scottish Natural Heritage, SNH
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From bog-sceptic to bog-enthusiast: the power of volunteering
To celebrate Volunteers’ Week, we asked David McCulloch, a volunteer at our Flanders Moss National Nature Reserve (NNR), to give us an insight into his volunteering experiences with NatureScot. I started volunteering for NatureScot in 2015, after taking early retirement. … Continue reading
Posted in Flanders Moss NNR, Volunteering
Tagged bog life, Flanders Moss NNR, nature, NatureScot, Raised bog, Volunteering
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Monitoring the not-so-common Common Crane in North East Scotland
Today, we welcome back guest blogger and ace photographer Ron Macdonald, who takes us on an amazing visual and auditory journey following common cranes in North East Scotland, as he volunteers for RSPB to help monitor and understand this recovering … Continue reading
Posted in biodiversity, Birds, citizen science, Ecology, photography, Uncategorized
Tagged biodiversity, birds, common crane, nature, NatureScot, North East Scotland, RSPB Scotland
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Case studies in rewilding and large-scale nature restoration
Many of us have heard about ‘rewilding’. There are some excellent examples of exciting rewilding projects in Scotland, such as on our Creag Meagaidh National Nature Reserve. Rewilding is about working with natural processes, guided by people at least in … Continue reading
Outdoor learning: helping to heal our young people
It has long been recognised that outdoor learning can be beneficial for health and wellbeing. NatureScot recently published the evaluation of a large collaborative outdoor learning project – the Learning in Local Greenspace project – which ran between 2015 and … Continue reading
Posted in green health
Tagged green health, Green infrastructure, greenspaces, outdoor education, Outdoor learning
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The five ingredients to a happier and healthier life revealed!
Green Health Week – the annual Scottish mental health and wellbeing campaign offers the perfect opportunity to reflect on the therapeutic effects of being in nature, writes Claire Williams. For me, volunteering with NatureScot at Loch Leven National Nature Reserve … Continue reading
Posted in green health
Tagged Green Health Week, mental health, Natural Health Service, nature
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Enhanced Shepherding: Working together to find solutions to a complex issue
Lambing season on Scotland’s hills can be a challenging time for farmers and crofters. In this guest blog we hear from Freya King from Skye who has been delivering enhanced shepherding supported by the Sea Eagle Management Scheme, a measure … Continue reading
Flora Gadelica
Tha cunntasan gu leòr mu bheul-aithris nan Gàidheal co-cheangailte ri craobhan ann am Flora Scotica le Iain Lightfoot (1777) Read in English Bithear a’ moladh an Urramaich Iain Lightfoot (1735-88) airson a shàr-obrach Flora Scotica, a chaidh fhoillseachadh ann an … Continue reading
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Yellow plant of Beltane
The marsh marigold is a vivid reminder of the close links between Gaelic culture and the Scottish seasons, as Ruairidh MacIlleathain explains. Leugh ann an Gàidhlig The day that starts the summer, now the first of May, is still known … Continue reading
Posted in Flowers, Folklore, Gaelic
Tagged flowers, Folklore, Gaelic, May, NatureScot, Scotland, Scottish Natural Heritage, SNH
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Lus buidhe Bealltainn
Tha na Gàidheil fhathast a’ comharrachadh na Bealltainn, co-dhiù le bhith ag ainmeachadh a’ chiad latha dhen Chèitean mar ‘Latha Buidhe Bealltainn’. Tha ‘buidhe’ an dà chuid na chomharra de dhath agus de dheagh fhortan (canaidh sinn ‘nach buidhe dhut’ … Continue reading
Posted in Flowers, Folklore, Gaelic, Uncategorized
Tagged flowers, Folklore, Gaelic, May, nature, NatureScot, Scotland, Scottish Natural Heritage, SNH
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