This project will trial a novel, low-cost method for establishing native woodland directly from seed in grazed farmland or croft land — without fencing — by rapidly creating a protective thorny scrub layer as the first stage of succession. The potential innovation would lie in establishing this thorny “nurse” layer quickly from seed, with a […]
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In 2023, the Isle of Gigha Heritage Trust (IGHT) undertook a two year project to begin control of 20 hectares of INNS that would improve woodland structure, increase diversity and natural regeneration opportunity, as well as improve woodland sites that contain pathways for their community and visitors. Whilst successful in kick-starting landscape scale control of […]
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Britain’s ambitious tree planting targets intersect with the expanding distribution of the Eurasian beaver (Castor fiber), a key ecosystem engineer of riparian woodlands. This overlap, coupled with the lack of guidance in woodland creation literature, has raised important questions about the potential impacts of beavers on riparian woodland creation schemes. To avoid jeopardising either woodland […]
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The aim of this University of Glasgow project is to quantify the extent of non-native plant invasion within the WrEN Scottish network of broadleaf woodland creation sites and determine the drivers of invasion to inform conservation management. The Woodland Creation & Ecological Networks project (WrEN) was established in 2014 and is a large-scale, long-term natural […]
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In support of a PhD project titled: Mountain birch in Scotland: genetics and recovery. The project has been developed collaboratively between the University of Stirling, UK Centre for Ecology Hydrology (UKCEH), Forest Research, Corrour Estate, National Trust for Scotland (NTS) and Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh (RBGE). Details to follow once match funding secured.
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E3 R&D have received funding previously, for a long-term high pruning and monitoring project on a 70 acre site, transforming the plantation woodland into a more biodiverse site. A large part of E3 R&D’s work is to monitor the effects of their changes on biodiversity, particularly bats. For this project E3 R&D will be looking […]
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Loch Abar Mòr is a nature restoration partnership led by SCOTLAND: The Big Picture, working at a regional scale to enable communities across Lochaber to thrive in an ecologically diverse and climate resilient landscape. This grant will help engage key land managers through demonstration site visits and raise local awareness about the value of riparian woodland, […]
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Having contributed a grant towards the pre-cursor project to the Common Ground Forum (CGF) in 2022, we are awarding a further grant in recognition of the positive impacts achieved by the network since it has become established. The network is committed to work in the spirit of respectful dialogue and collaboration, as set out in […]
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This grant will enable SCOTLAND: The Big Picture to demonstrate and communicate how to increase the cover of native woodland ground flora within native woodland creation schemes. This will be achieved through a combination of planting and natural colonisation across four sites in their Northwoods Rewilding Network. The lack of woodland ground flora colonising planted […]
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Rhyze is a workers’ cooperative in Edinburgh who have delivered a previously funded feasibility study into the social, ecological and commercial case for Chaga cultivation in Scotland. This grant will support the next stage of their work to produce a stable and reliable strain of native chaga in vitro which can be used to produce […]
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