Meadow-in-a-box: A Different Approach to Urban Greening

Meadow-in-a-Box was created to fill a gap in Aberdeen City Councils approach to managing the city’s green spaces. How could the City Council create beautiful, pollinator and people-friendly habitat that would also help combat the global climate emergency?

Meadow-in-a-Box was created to fill a gap in Aberdeen City Councils approach to managing the city’s green spaces. How could the City Council create beautiful, pollinator and people-friendly habitat that would also help combat the global climate emergency?

Braehead Primary with their Meadow-in-a-box - Aberdeen City Council Countryside Rangers

Braehead Primary with their Meadow-in-a-box - Aberdeen City Council Countryside Rangers

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Simon Whitworth

Aberdeen City Council Countryside Officer

What We’re Reading

NESBiP Wildflower & Scything Workshops

More than a third of City’s meadow boxes to bloom on NHS grounds

Boxing clever in Aberdeen

NESBiP Wildflower & Scything Workshops 2025

Join us this summer and autumn for a Wildflower & Scything workshop. Together with Curam Fyvie and Outdoor & Woodlands Learning Scotland, we will host several workshops around North East Scotland.

Join us this summer and autumn for a Wildflower & Scything workshop. Together with Curam Fyvie and Outdoor & Woodlands Learning Scotland, we will host several workshops around North East Scotland.

Image showing a Meadow Cranesbill, which is a native wildflower that could be collected during our workshops.

Meadows Cranebill - Ian Talboys

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Abbie Ferrar

NESBiP Coordinator

Management of St Machar’s Cathedral Graveyard for Biodiversity

By changing the management of St Machar’s Cathedral graveyard, this community group hopes to increase and safeguard urban biodiversity.

By changing the management of St Machar’s Cathedral graveyard, this community group hopes to increase and safeguard urban biodiversity.

Snowdrops in foreground and St Machars Cathedral Graveyard which is managed for biodiversity

Ian Talboys

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Ian Talboys

St Machar’s Cathedral Volunteer & Former Aberdeen City Council Countryside Officer

Citizens leading a soil sample collection effort across Scotland

The James Hutton Institute is engaging 1200 citizens in an effort to increase soil literacy and map the state of soil across Scotland.

The James Hutton Institute is engaging 1200 citizens in an effort to increase soil literacy and map the state of soil across Scotland.

ECHO Horizon project logo

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Karolina Trdlicova

Citizen Science Coordinator

Seals in the Ythan Estuary

Seal-iously Healthy: Leveraging health app data to understand human activity around a seal protection zone.

Seal-iously Healthy: Leveraging health app data to understand human activity around a seal protection zone.

© Claire Stainfield

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Claire Stainfield

PGR Student Researcher at Scotland’s Rural College (SRC)

Seaton Wetland Project

Seaton Wetland Project in Aberdeen transformed an area of park which regularly flooded into a fantastic wetland for wildlife, which helps protect the rest of the park from future flooding.

Seaton Wetland Project in Aberdeen transformed an area of park which regularly flooded into a fantastic wetland for wildlife, which helps protect the rest of the park from future flooding.

Picture of an Emerald Damselfly up close

© Ian Talboys

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Ewen Cameron

Independent Member at NESBiP

Water Shrew Watch

With a black upper side, smartly contrasting with a white throat and belly, they are the most distinctive of all our small mammal species. Despite this, they are seldom seen.

With a black upper side, smartly contrasting with a white throat and belly, they are the most distinctive of all our small mammal species. Despite this, they are seldom seen.

Picture of a water shrew eating some bird seed captured by a small mammal camera trap.

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Rose Toney

Coordinator at The Biodiversity Partnership (2010-2019)

Schools Camera Trap Project

Combining technology with children’s natural fascination with wildlife allows them to connect to nature in your school grounds. Read more about our camera trap project and future plans.

Combining technology with children’s natural fascination with wildlife allows them to connect to nature in your school grounds. Read more about our camera trap project and future plans.

Picture of a school child preparing a camera trap attached to a tree in a woodland.

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“Our pupils and staff were not only captivated by the animals that visited our garden, but motivated to learn more about them and find out how to encourage other wildlife” Ciara Gibson, PT, Grandtully Primary

“It’s just such a fantastic educational experience for everyone!  The whole school are hooked, and the children are viewing their playground so very differently.  Their wee minds have been blown… Cannot thank you both enough!” Newtonhill Primary

“I liked putting the camera out.  Before I saw the video of the pine martens, I thought they were make-believe creatures like unicorns!” Florence McNeil (Age 6).

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Rose Toney

Coordinator at The Biodiversity Partnership (2010-2019)

Huntly Swift Group – NES Swifts

“They’ve made it again, which means the globe’s still working” – Ted Hughes

“They’ve made it again, which means the globe’s still working” – Ted Hughes

Swift in flight by Peter Bartholomew - Huntly Swift Group

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Cally Smith

Founder of Huntly Swift Group – NES Swifts

What We’re Reading

How to help our swifts

Create a high home for swifts

The Greatest Bird on Earth

Young Wildlife Recorders

Schools and community groups incorporated wildlife recording and submitting records to the local biological records centre (NESBReC) into existing outdoor learning initiatives.

Schools and community groups incorporated wildlife recording and submitting records to the local biological records centre (NESBReC) into existing outdoor learning initiatives.

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Annie Robinson

Independent Member at NESBiP

What We’re Reading

Kids are great citizen scientists

North East Scotland camera trapping

Camera trapping for conservation