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 awarded 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 the […]
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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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E3 R&D have been working on a 70 acre site to transform the traditional model of plantation woodland into an approach which delivers much greater environmental and social benefits. They are trialling techniques for a transition to continuous cover and native woodland over substantial areas of land. The area of Sitka plantation that is ‘heather […]
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Rhyze is a workers’ cooperative in Edinburgh with an impressive track record of testing different models of community food growing and mushroom cultivation. They are currently researching and investigating the social, ecological and commercial case for Chaga cultivation in Scotland. Chaga (Inonotus obliquus) is a slow growing, parasitic wood-decay fungus mostly found on Birch trees […]
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This grant went towards phase 2 of the Painting Scotland Yellow project: to produce a promotional film about aspen to inform professionals, policy-makers and the general public, followed by an event to encourage collaborative effort in propagating aspen.
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Borders Forest Trust undertook an integrated study to allow for the sensitive ecological restoration and expansion of a rare surviving habitat and provide a resource for more widespread recognition and restoration of ancient wood pasture, slope alder wood pasture in particular.
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Ecochar offers a novel biochar-based carbon removal solution with outstanding biodiversity co-benefits: the removal of widespread and highly invasive rhododendron which threatens Scotland’s rare coastal temperate rainforest. Treeconomy proposed a circular economy solution: converting the woody biomass from invasive rhododendron removal into biochar. This biochar would then be sold as carbon removal credits to corporate […]
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The Caledonian Pinewoods in the Highlands of Scotland are unique in the UK; home to some of the UK’s rarest wildlife, they are also economically important for commercial timber enterprises. However, in recent years, Dothistroma Needle Blight (DNB) has become increasingly widespread, affecting at least eighty-two species of pine worldwide, including the UK’s native Scots […]
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