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ECAF – Degraded Habitats – Peatland

We’ve been beavering away this week trying to get an application completed for the Environment Co-operation Action Fund (ECAF). It’s a really interesting new fund that has been set up by the SG, and one that could be a game changer assuming the funds can be accessed. As always with a new grant, some of the questions posed as part of the application process are quite hard to get a…
December 20, 2015
Weekly News

Land Reform – Scotland- latest for deer managers

Here is a report just published by the Scottish Government on Land Reform, which has some potentially serious implications for deer managers depending on your viewpoint. It also contains a raft of other proposals that will likely have wide ranging ramifications - what interesting times we live in.
December 15, 2015
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Nature of Scotland Award winners – bog restoration

Attended the Nature of Scotland Award ceremony last night as guests of Scottish Power Renewables. Although unexpected, we won the award for Sustainable Development in recognition of our partnership working on forest-to-bog restoration on windfarm sites in Lanarkshire. This was a tremendous outcome for SPR, having invested so much money in the science necessary to develop the stump flipping/ground smoothing techniques we now take for granted. For a windfarm developer…
November 18, 2015
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Peatland action – hag re-profiling

We went up to see a site this week treated as part of a Peatland Action fund project. A really interesting day, seeing hag re-profiling in action. It’s an innovative new technique that we will be interested to monitor in the long term to see if it changes the trajectory of the eroding sites it is being applied to. Thanks so much to Stephen Corcoran of CNPA for hosting the…
November 10, 2015