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Arran Community Land Initiative plans for 2020
A message from the Arran Community Land Initiative about some of their plans for 2020 - We are currently working on a number of funding applications in support of our management of…
Glen Rosa Woodland Revival
The National Trust for Scotland are hosting a volunteer tree planting day next week on Thursday 5th December, to help with our landscape scale woodland revival project in Glen Rosa. Their aim…
News from the Arran Community Land Initiative
Arran Community Land Initiative – opportunities to get involved! Through the winter we held volunteer days on the second Saturday of each month; these involved fencing, polytunnel clearance, and other vital maintenance…
Rewilding is essential to the UK’s commitments on climate change
Humans have cut down half the trees on Earth since the dawn of agriculture – over 3 trillion of them. This huge loss holds the potential for massive reforestation today, which would…
The Reforesting Glen Rosa Project
November has seen the start of the National Trust project to reforest Glen Rosa. Earlier in the year the National Trust for Scotland unveiled an initiative to plant 32 hectares of native…
Arran Community Land 2016/17
We have had a fantastic year here on the Community Land above Whiting Bay. Here are some of the things achieved in 2016: Orchard of 30 apple trees planted by youth groups…
Protecting the future of Scotland’s trees at Kew’s Millennium Seed Bank
From 24 to 28 October 2016 the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew were in Perth and Kinross, and Argyll and Bute, collecting seeds from dwarf birch (Betula nana), downy birch (Betula pubescens), rowan…
Last chance for Scotland to Grow Wild
Registration for seed kits closes on 14 February Scotland’s biggest-ever seed sowing campaign, Grow Wild, has thousands of free seed kits to give away to help people transform local spaces into beautiful,…