We’ve now completed the design framework for our Participatory Science Programme, which you can read here. This work has been enabled through a Heritage Lottery Fund grant received by RECRI partner, the Cateran Ecomuseum, and inspired by success of their…
Involving local people in river restoration and benefiting from their expertise
Key milestone for Nature Finance in Scotland reached A new plan to attract responsible private investment into natural capital markets has been launched for Scotland. Minister for Employment and Investment Tom Arthur launched Scotland’s Natural Capital Market Framework as he…
Our River Ericht Catchment Restoration Initiative (RECRI), one of two nature-restoration projects in Scotland to receive funding via the Riverwoods Investment Readiness Pioneers aims to unlock a combination of public and private finance to deliver riparian restoration and nature recovery…
Our project’s ‘Pioneer’ status means that we are being offered some fantastic opportunities to pilot new ways of working to restore nature at landscape scale. One of those is the opportunity to work with ETH Zurich on trialing a new…
Our partners the Tay Ghillies Association have just shared the 2022 SmartRivers data. SmartRivers is a project of WildFish, which works to protect wild fish and their waters. SmartRivers sampling on the River Ericht, photo Clare Cooper Human activities put…
Featured in this link is a series of films and editorial features produced by SCOTLAND: The Big Picture and commissioned by the Fishmongers’ Company’s Charitable Trust providing information and inspiration for land managers seeking to embark on a journey of…
We’ve just achieved the first milestone of our design stage with a preliminary baseline of the condition and extent of the catchment’s ‘natural capital’ – a term in the nature restoration lexicon that describes the habitats and ecosystems that provide…
The new River Ericht Catchment Restoration Initiative has been confirmed as the second project[1] in Scotland to receive a Riverwoods Investment Readiness Pioneers award. The River Ericht, one of the most important spawning grounds for Atlantic salmon in Europe, is in crisis. Extreme weather caused…