Industry Update: Nature Restoration Skills Week: 13-17 March 2023
NatureScot and partners have put together a programme of free training events focussed on skills for nature restoration.
Events include:
–Pasture for Life and SoilMentor are running three workshops across Scotland this March. Explore how to understand changes on your land, both above and below ground and make informed decisions using the Soilmentor app.
–Keep Scotland Beautiful training on Biodiversity and nature for climate emergency highlights the links between the changing climate and the biodiversity crisis. The webinar serves as an introduction to the science behind climate change with a focus on how nature is coping with the environmental crisis. Low carbon behaviours and nature-based solutions are explored to give individuals and organisations the confidence to make changes. This one-hour webinar is perfect for anyone looking to understand the forces driving climate change and the risks posed to nature.
–‘The right tree in the right place’ – A chance to discuss ancient woodland restoration at Loch Arkaig Pine Forest – a Scottish Rainforest and Caledonian Pinewood Inventory site – with Woodland Trust Scotland. Discussion will focus on woodland management history, invasive non-native species, and ancient woodland restoration activities.The event is aimed at land owners and land managers and individuals interested in ancient woodland restoration and biodiversity conservation.
–Woodland management on a National Nature Reserve – Join NatureScot staff at Beinn Eighe NNR. This practical session will focus fencing and tree planting techniques while having the opportunity to discuss and find out about how woodland and upland habitats are managed at Beinn Eighe NNR. Suitable for anyone with an interest in developing woodland management skills.
–Making amenity grassland nature-positive. Butterfly Conservation are hosting this online event will provide attendees with knowledge of the ecological principles and examples of good practice in making amenity grasslands more nature positive. Suitable for those who are managing grasslands in settings such as road verges, parks and open spaces, business premises, social housing, institutions, and cemeteries.
–Spatial data for peatland restoration – an online training session from NatureScot Peatland ACTION that will be useful to landowners and peatland restoration scheme designers, this session will set out spatial data requirement for Peatland Action grant applications and feasibility studies.
Find out more here.
