By Rebecca Plant, Project Manager, Fauna & Flora International On a scorching hot day in mid-August, I was lucky enough to take part in the inaugural Wild Seas Weekend on…
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Seawilding: sowing the seeds for community-led marine restoration
Friday, June 24th, 2022by 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’,…
Restoration Forth: the seagrass search begins
Monday, April 18th, 2022Let 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…
Mapping the Forth coastline through art
Monday, March 21st, 2022This 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…
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…
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…
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…
FFI Scotland Marine Restoration Internship
Thursday, September 9th, 2021Fauna & Flora International is offering a paid internship for a three-month period from October to December 2021, based at FFI’s office space in Edinburgh, Scotland. Salary: Circa £18,000 Pro…
Seagrass Harvest Open Day at Loch Craignish!
Tuesday, August 24th, 2021Community snorkelers and volunteers marked a milestone in Scottish inshore marine habitat restoration in mid-August by harvesting and planting seagrass in Loch Craignish. Over 60 snorkellers and volunteers from the…
Cleaning up sea loch to bring wildlife back
Tuesday, June 22nd, 2021Image © Seawilding For most gardeners, the fiddly task of sowing seeds is eventually rewarded by seeing the fruits of their labours blossom and grow. But for pioneering volunteers involved…