by Kerri Whiteside, Community Support Specialist at Fauna & Flora International (FFI) Last weekend I visited the beautiful Craignish peninsula in Argyll to join Seawilding’s first ever ‘restoration training weekend’,…
by Kerri Whiteside, Community Support Specialist at Fauna & Flora International (FFI) Last weekend I visited the beautiful Craignish peninsula in Argyll to join Seawilding’s first ever ‘restoration training weekend’,…
In late March, during a week of particularly pleasant weather, members of the Coastal Communities Network (CCN) in the north western reaches of Scotland met up with an international group…
Let me introduce myself. My name is Lyle Boyle and I was a member of CCN a few years ago when I served as a Marine Ranger with the Berwickshire…
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…
By 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…
Credit: 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…
Credit © 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…
Seagrass © 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…
Coastal 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…
Scientist 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…