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Biodiversity Audit Meetings 2025

Biodiversity Audit Meetings 2025 Distinct from our FAS Farm Wildlife Walks, these sessions are focused specifically on helping you complete the biodiversity section of your Whole Farm Plan. Land managers now need to undertake two out of five potential audits, with all five audits necessary by 2028. Biodiversity audits have the advantage of being something…

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Funding to Support Spring Biodiversity on your Farm

Ground-nesting birds have begun their breeding season across woodlands, moorlands, grasslands and wetlands. These habitats are invaluable for biodiversity and can provide benefits to farmers and crofters who preserve them. By encouraging biodiversity, you maintain the network of habitats, species, and ecosystems necessary to support human life—our oxygen, water, food, and health. You can also…

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Farm Wildlife Walks 2026

Farm Wildlife Walks 2026 Farm Wildlife Walks is back for 2026! 2025 saw ten meetings across the country and this year we are back with more events, with twelve meetings throughout summer and winter! For the uninitiated, Farm Wildlife Walks is a FAS series where we promote nature-friendly farming and grass-roots conservation knowledge exchange, highlighting…

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Biodiversity: Why is habitat connectivity important?

Scottish farmland supports a wide array of semi-natural habitats for wildlife, including hedgerows, water margins and woodlands. These features can also provide ecological stepping stones and corridors, enhancing habitat connectivity. This connectivity helps species move through our countryside, allowing them to escape harm or find the right mix of resources to survive and thrive. What…

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Natural Capital – Pivotal: Nature is Invaluable

We are joined by Jonathan Morley from Pivotal, to discuss the importance of robust, reliable and verifiable data and how digital biodiversity monitoring is part of this. Pivotal are a biodiversity monitoring and analytics company working with a range of Natural Capital managers, funds and organisations across the world, providing data from both the ground and remote sources.

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Natural Capital – NatureScot Biodiversity Audits

In this episode we speak to Celine Delabre from NatureScot to inform listeners on the upcoming requirement to complete biodiversity audits as part of the Whole Farm Plan and how NatureScot’s farm biodiversity app can help to deliver these in the future. We discuss the important details that farmers requiring the audit need to know to help them complete it and find out more about the NatureScot app.

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Natural Capital – Loch Leven’s Larder

  Loch Leven’s Larder is an enterprise with the farm to fork concept at its core, with the farm providing produce to the café and shop. Since 2005, the larder has put community and sustainability at the forefront of its operations, to provide the Loch Leven area a place to enjoy locally sourced healthy food…

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Collecting On-Farm Biodiversity Data with Bioacoustics

This article is part of the Climate Change & Carbon Research Briefings series. More articles in the series can be found below: Understanding Natural Capital Markets Faba Beans for Alternative Protein and Reducing Monogastric Carbon Footprint  Applicability of Slurry Separation and Acidification on Farms in Scotland  Advancing Agricultural Practices, Reducing Emissions and Ensuring Sustainable Growth…

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A Damming Conclusion? Part II

THRILL OF THE HILL | A Damming Conclusion: Part II with Davy McCracken Thrill of the Hill returns for season 5, with an exciting line-up on new and returning guest speakers and specialists in their fields and on their hills. Beavers and their presence in Scotland continues to divide the agricultural community, for some they…

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