by Struan Candlish | Feb 20, 2024 | Conservation, Consultation, Events, General
We were pleased to be invited back onto the Thrill of the Hill Podcast where the Farm Advisory Service (FAS) explores the multitude of issues facing the farmed upland environment and how we can reconcile priorities in conflict, showcase good practice, new...
by Struan Candlish | Feb 5, 2024 | Conservation, Events, General, Projects
Last week we were joined by a great group of volunteers who helped us with tree planting aspect of our Greening the Banks of the Water of Girvan Project, supported by the Nature Restoration Fund, the Landowner and the Girvan DSFB. With the green engineering and...
by Struan Candlish | Jan 17, 2024 | Conservation, General, Green engineering, Projects
Our Greening the Banks of the Water of Girvan project is making great progress and with the fencing and green engineering aspects of the project complete we’re turning our attention to tree planting over the coming weeks. We had been scheduled to begin planting...
by Carolyn Bryce | Nov 14, 2023 | Conservation, Projects
We are pleased to announce that in early October we received news that our latest Ayrshire Rural and Island Ambition Fund (ARIA) project application had been successful. The Ayrshire Grown Project was developed with the aim of establishing a native tree nursery,...
by Struan Candlish | Oct 11, 2023 | Conservation, General, Green engineering, Projects
We’ve recently completed bank regrading and green engineering at our NatureScot funded project, Greening the Banks of the Water of Girvan. The site consisted of over 50 meters of sheer eroding banking that was contributing tonnes of sand and silt to the Girvan...
by Struan Candlish | Sep 12, 2023 | Conservation, Electrofishing, General
We completed our last NEPS (National Electrofishing Programme for Scotland) site on Friday afternoon last week. The Programme has us survey 30 sites randomly generated to prevent operative selection bias. These surveys are always interesting due to the random nature...