This month Rebecca and I made it across to the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh to join CCN member Rosslyn Barr (of Edinburgh Shoreline) for a bespoke visit of the new…
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Sowing the seeds of recovery: community-led marine restoration in Scotland
Monday, March 14th, 2022By Alan Munro Oysters being put in the loch by local community © Philip Price Once upon a time, Scotland’s inshore seas supported vast seagrass meadows rich in biodiversity and…
Gartmore 3: Coastal Communities Network Workshop
Monday, February 21st, 2022Credit: Rebecca Plant It had been a while since CCN members were able to meet at Gartmore, with the pandemic having delayed the planned 2020 get together, but we were…
Berwickshire Marine Reserve Marine Monitoring
Monday, February 14th, 2022Credit © Berwickshire Marine Reserve Last year the Berwickshire Marine Reserve (BMR) received £3000 from the Community Support Fund to help them build organisational capacity to monitor pressures that threaten…
U-turn on Clyde cod protection area
Tuesday, February 8th, 2022Credit © NatureScot A conservation group has criticised the Scottish government for scaling back on the size of a seasonal protection area for cod in the Firth of Clyde. Ministers…
Scotland’s first seagrass restoration guide
Wednesday, December 1st, 2021Seagrass © Ben James/NatureScot Flickr Scotland’s first handbook for seagrass restoration has been published as trials in the innovative technique gather pace. The handbook has been developed by NatureScot in…
Recruitment: Coastal Communities Network Coordinator
Tuesday, November 30th, 2021Coastal Communities Network Coordinator, Conservation Science & Design, Fauna & Flora International Salary: Circa £25,000 per annum Start Date: February 2022 Contract Type: Two-year fixed-term contract Location: FFI’s office space…
Seagrass and oyster restoration begins in the Forth
Thursday, October 28th, 2021Scientist Richard Lilley is one of the team working on a new £2.4 million project to restore seagrass and wild oyster populations in the Firth of Forth. Pioneering work to…
Over 40 fish farms ‘unsatisfactory’, says government watchdog
Thursday, October 21st, 2021Over one in ten of Scotland’s fish farms have been rated as “unsatisfactory” by the Scottish Government’s environmental watchdog because of pollution, pesticide and reporting breaches, The Ferret can reveal….
Listen to local voices – Scotland’s coastal communities
Monday, October 11th, 2021Flame shell. Credit: COAST Scotland’s coastline and inshore waters support a wealth of marine species and ecosystems, much of it vital to local livelihoods, but all too often its coastal…