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Developing woodland skills
Helping people gain access to skills needed to care for our woodlands
Championing resilient forestry
Advancing regenerative approaches that work for climate, nature and people
Expanding knowledge and awareness
Funding research and shared learning for Scotland’s native woodlands
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Acousting monitoring
Acoustic Monitoring to help landowners understand their land’s biodiversity.
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Research into Dothistroma Needle Blight
Research into Dothistroma Needle Blight (DNB), to reduce its harmful impact on Caledonian pine forests and other species of pine in the UK and worldwide. 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. […]
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Ecochar carbon removal solution
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 has gathered a capable group of partners from across the UK Biochar Demonstrator, University of Nottingham, National Trust for Scotland, Woodland Trust Scotland, and Alliance for Scotland’s […]
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Ancient Slope Alder Wood Pasture
BFT proposes to carry out an innovative, integrated ecological and historical case study of DW, synthesising four elements, to create a detailed picture of the woodland on which to build a plan for the restoration and expansion of this habitat, and create a learning resource and demonstration site for other organisations and future work. The […]
Learn MoreLoch Lomond, Auchmar | Recovering 22 hectares of ancient woodland
During our site visit to assess the 7 hectare woodland creation proposal, our team discovered an exciting opportunity to expand a 22-hectare area of ancient woodland by excluding cattle and sheep. This unique ghost woodland scheme features scattered, relatively young yet mature trees, setting it apart from other projects we’ve funded. It lies adjacent to […]
Learn MoreInvermallie | Recovering 34 hectares of ancient Caledonian pinewood
We are excited to support the restoration of 34 hectares of ancient Caledonian pinewood—one of Scotland’s rarest habitats, with only 84 fragments remaining. The site has already been assessed by Trees for Life as part of their Wild Pine project, and it features some remnant Scots pine among the birch and oak. Although the existing […]
Learn MoreGlen Mallie | Restoring 212 hectares of ancient Caledonian pinewood
Mapped as ‘An Giubhsach’– meaning ‘pine’ – on the Forgotten Woodlands database, the Glen Mallie Pinewood Restoration project will help protect one of the last remaining fragments of native Caledonian pinewood. In 2023, surveys by Future Woodlands found that there is natural regeneration present, following the woodland’s 1876 boundaries, but is being prevented from establishing […]
Learn MoreBlack Corries, Allt Giubhais | Restoring 44 hectares of ghost woodland
Allt Guibhais is a 44 hectare ghost woodland project near the iconic Devil’s Staircase of the West Highland Way. The area is adjacent to the Leven Valley SSSI on the north-western boundary of Black Corries Estate, above the village of Kinlochleven in Lochaber. There was good evidence of historic woodland cover to be found on […]
Learn MoreGlen Laudale (west) | Extending the Loch Sunart native woodland habitat
This project offered an opportunity to secure and enhance the biodiversity resource within surrounding ancient woodland fragments and PAWS, by increasing connectivity and creating new habitats for ancient woodland specialists to colonise over time. Future Woodland Scotland visited the site in 2022 to assess the new woodland creation scheme and noted the evidence of advance […]
Learn MoreCeannacroc (east) | 93 ha restoration project
We have worked with the landowner of this estate since 2022 to support their woodland creation and 93 hectare ghost woodland restoration projects that will increase habitat connectivity and enhance biodiversity, whilst providing the landowner with alternatives to sheep farming. Ceannacroc has its own registered seed source with native Scots pine seed being harvested, the […]
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