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Kirkcudbright Rotary Club volunteers do their bit for environment by planting saplings in Gartshore Park
The green initiative came after the Borders Forest Trust offered organisations across the south young trees free of charge
Kirkcudbright Rotary Club volunteers planting saplings in Gartshore Park.
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IN a difficult year like the one that we have just been through, we can easily get caught up in the idea that when it comes to the climate or biodiversity crisis, there is no hope. But, in fact, there are glimmerings. Where we see hope at its brightest is when we witness actual change, rather than statements of intent, or the survival and return of things thought lost. It’s a golden eagle back in a forest in which none have bred for decades, it’s a flame shell reef surviving in the firth of Clyde, it’s people taking waste and turning it into something useful, it’s projects that are helping develop the future of our decarbonised home heating, it’s a song that reminds us that we can come together.
AN EXAMPLE of the new landscape leadership is the Carrifran Wildwood project in the Southern Uplands More than 75,000 acres of land is to be transformed by Scotland’s new ‘landscape leaders’. Following their participation in Soil Association Scotland’s Landscape Leadership programme, a group of private landowners and managers are planting more native trees, opening up discussions between different types of landowners, and restoring peatland across Scotland. The group are united in their desire to restore nature and mitigate climate change for Scotland’s future generations, and have worked together in a mix of residential and then online sessions from January to October, with leadership coaching and input from land managers already running large-scale environmental projects.