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Arran Pioneer Project winter news
Well here we are. It’s our first ever newsletter. It’s been a wild ride to get here. We are so grateful to the hundreds of local volunteers, supporters and donors who have…
Tree Planting in January at ACLI
Over the past two years at the Arran Community Land Initiative we have planted thousands of native deciduous trees on the slopes, primarily Oak and Aspen plus others including Bird Cherry, Hawthorn,…
National Tree Week: The Tree Charter
First published Tuesday, 19 November 2019, Forestry and Land. The Tree Council’s nation-wide celebration National Tree Week is here, taking place on 27th November to 5th December 2021! Back in 2017, the…
News from the Arran Community Land Initiative
Arran Community Land Initiative (ACLI) update December 2021 The Annual General Meeting took place in November and was well attended with 20 members and several interested observers coming along. The Chairperson and…
Community Landowners and the Climate Emergency
A report commissioned earlier this year by Community Land Scotland reveals the leading role played by community landowners in tackling the Climate Emergency. Community Landowners and the Climate Emergency shows how community…
Let’s grow a Woodland Nation
A new report published at the end of last month proposes a radical pathway for Scotland to become a Woodland Nation. In the following article, Rob Edwards from The Ferret takes a…
Three Small Orchards Planted By The Arran Pioneer Project
Featured image shows Poppy and Flora tree planting in Lochranza Last weekend the Arran Pioneer Project planted fruit and nut trees and fruit bushes on three sites around Arran. Volunteers of all…
New woodland and wader scrapes
News from the Arran Community Land Initiative February 2021
Arran Arboretum, let the trees continue the clapping!
In this article Mhairi Aileen Smeir, tells us about plans for an Arran Arboretum and ways you can get involved. Many of you may remember the launch of The Isle of Arran’s…
Britain needs a National Nature Service to power a green recovery
The most effective back-to-work peacetime programme ever conceived was America’s 1930’s Civilian Conservation Corps which put three million young people back in employment. They planted three billion trees, established seven hundred new…
The Committee on Climate Change’s progress report
What will life look like after Covid? Will we go back to the way things were? Do we want to? And if we don’t, then what changes do we want to make?
Support Scotland’s Rangers’ jobs!
The National Trust for Scotland is Scotland’s largest conservation charity and one of the biggest employers of countryside rangers. However, the Trust has put 75% of their rangers, ecologists and other countryside…