Wee Forests in North East Scotland
Read about Mike Raby’s research on the Miyawaki Method, Wee Forests in North East Scotland and the benefits they bring.
Mike Raby
SRUC Student
Read about Mike Raby’s research on the Miyawaki Method, Wee Forests in North East Scotland and the benefits they bring.
SRUC Student
Learn how Claire Stainfield is utilising advances in AI to support seal research. When used thoughtfully, AI can be a powerful tool.
SRUC PhD Candidate
Unfortunately many of our amphibians get trapped in our drains. Learn how Steve Hull is finding a solution to death traps in suburbia.
NESBiP Spring Seminar this year, was in collaboration with NESCAN – “Supporting Local Biodiversity using the Climate Adaptation Route Map”. Read SRUC Student, Grace Green’s experience of the seminar.
SRUC Student - gjm-green@hotmail.co.uk
12th – 18th May is Invasive Species Week & aims to raise awareness on invasive plant & animal species. Read to learn how you can help NESBReC and the Scottish Invasive Species Initiative by reporting your sightings.
Our guest blog this month has been written by Cally from the Huntly Swift Group – NES Swifts.
Read to learn how the Aberdeenshire Council Rangers and Banff and Buchan schools are collaborating and creating wildlife habitat networks for pollinators.
Banff & Buchan Ranger for Aberdeenshire Council
Read to learn how the Crown Estate Scotland team, a local farmer & the Tomintoul community turned an empty strip of land into a thriving wildflower meadow to help their local pollinators.
Glenlivet Estate Head Ranger, Crown Estate Scotland
Everyone loves a wildflower meadow. They make a great backdrop for chocolate or washing powder adverts, but for bees and other pollinators they are critical habitat.
Independent Member at NESBiP
Why does SNH erect an electric fence around the Forvie tern colony? Why do RSPB use ponies to graze at Loch of Strathbeg? What about placement of bat boxes, or methods used to control invasive species?
Conservation Evidence at University of Cambridge