Biodiversity
Thrill of the Hill – A Damming Conclusion?
Episode #12 – A Damming Conclusion? Beavers are a keystone species and their presence in Scotland could go a long way to achieving land landscape scale nature restoration that Scottish…
Read More >Making a Home for Bats on Your Croft
Where do bats live? A roost is the name of a bat’s home. Throughout the year bats may move between different roosts, that provide different needs, in the summer, females…
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Agribusiness News March 2023
Welcome to the March edition of Agribusiness News. If you prefer to download this document click the download button. N e w s i n b r i e…
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Rural Roundup – 8th February
Welcome back to the Rural Round-up. This show is produced in association with the Scottish Government. On today’s episode Kerry hears from Farm Advisors, Tiffany, George, and Robert to find…
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Recognising Healthy Peatlands
In this video, Dr Lorna Cole from SAC Consulting discusses how to recognise degraded peatlands with Laura Curtis-Moss from East Ayrshire Coalfield Environment Initiative. Related FAS Resources Protecting Scotland’s Peatlands…
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Peatland Restoration
In this video the SAC Consulting team up with peatland experts from East Ayrshire Coalfield Environment Initiative to help landowners navigate through a peatland restoration project: from finding funding, to…
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Species-Rich Grasslands
Species-rich grasslands are particularly valuable for wildlife and support a variety of rare species of plants and insects. Despite their value, we have lost approximately 97% of these grasslands. With…
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Land Management for Lesser Butterfly Orchid
Lesser Butterfly Orchid is a long-lived perennial, and once widespread it is now in decline. In this video Helen Bibby of SAC Consulting gives us more information about this species…
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Land Management for Juniper
Juniper is an evergreen shrub that tends to grow in colonies. It is in decline, and Scotland supports 80% of the UK juniper population. In this video Helen Bibby of…
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Land Management for Scotland’s Rainforest
Scotland’s rainforest, an Atlantic rainforest, is identified as being under threat and in decline. In this video Helen Bibby from SAC Consulting and Stan Phillips from NatureScot outline what makes…
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