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Bringing butterflies and bees back to Skolie Burn SSSI
Since starting a Community Woodland group, Ian Records’ life has changed completely – dropping leaflets, knocking on doors, writing up woodland management plans and doing flower surveys. Here, he tells how a protected area can galvanise a local community to take action to improve their local area for people and wildlife. Continue reading
Posted in Access, bees, biodiversity, citizen science, Community engagement, conservation, Ecology, Flowers, Insects, Land management, meadow, Orchids, plants, Projects, Scotland's Protected Places, SNH, SSSI, Uncategorized, Volunteering, wild flowers
Tagged bees, butterflies, citizen science, Community Groups, Edinburgh, grassland, meadows, nature, Orchids, pollinators, regeneration, Scotland, Scottish Natural Heritage, Site of special scientific interest, Skolie Burn, SNH, SSSI, UK, wild flowers, woodland regeneration
Where have all the flowers gone?
Kate Holl, our woodland advisor, searches for the answer by exploring woodland in our neighbouring countries through a Churchill Fellowship. My Churchill Fellowship really began back in 2012 in this little bit of woodland on the Isle of Mull deer-fenced … Continue reading
Posted in woodlands
Tagged biodiversity, overgrazing, regeneration, Scottish Natural Heritage, wildflowers, woodland understorey, woodlands
Norwegian wood
Question: What does Norway have in common with Scotland? Answer: Much more than those of us attending a talk by Scots-born ecologist, Duncan Halley, expected. Duncan lives and works in Norway for the Norwegian Institute for Nature Research (NINA). He … Continue reading
Posted in biodiversity
Tagged Duncan Halley, Norway, Norwegian Institute for Nature Research, regeneration, woodland regeneration, woodlands
