Woodland floor Scottish Wildlife Trust #BrockWood is carpeted in #wildgarlic that’s ready to burst into flower. #Primroses dotted through the #woodland and a wee #wren posed briefly.

📷 (c)SMDavies

Newts hiding under logs in The Scottish Wildlife Trusts' Bawsinch Nature Rreserve, Duddingston. A thriving population. #Newts Scottish Wildlife Trust LARG

Amazing what you find in the woods when you look under a log! Newts, giant slugs & assorted beasties. Scottish Wildlife Trust Bawsinch reserve today. ENHS The British Nature Guide BuglifeScotland UK AMPHIBIANS & ALL THINGS WILDLIFE 🐸 🌻🍄🐝🦋🐌 #newt #Edinburgh

Spring is really in full flow now at Montrose Basin - look at all the Spring migrants that have recently arrived!

We were watching a swallow and a sand martin flying over the salt pans yesterday, and today we heard our first willow warbler of the year. 🥰 #Spring

'Scottish venison is bringing people from all sides of the deer debate together.'

Today's blog looks at proposals to introduce a venison subsidy in Scotland, supported by both environmentalists and deer management groups.

Read more ⬇️

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📸: Simon Jones

We are delighted to be supporting this Nature Recovery Leadership Programme. Apply now for this exciting opportunity if you:

🔰Live or work in the North of England or Scotland
🔰Work for nature recovery in any field, sector or discipline
🔰Are highly motivated

#leadership

Great to see that a new phase of Cumbernauld Living Landscape Cumbernauld Living Landscape has secured funding. The partnership has delivered significant improvements to Cumbernauld’s natural environment over the years and I will continue to support their work locally during this next phase.

🍸Our bright and fresh Connell's Wild Scotland Gin, from Selkirk Distillers, is infused with a unique blend of angelica and orris root making it the perfect tipple for spring time.

#spring #gin #tipple

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Thanks to funding from The National Lottery Heritage Fund Scotland a new phase of Cumbernauld Living Landscape, an ambitious partnership initiative with an ecosystem approach to land management, is set to begin.

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📸© Gill Hatcher, tree planting at Broadwood Nature Reserve

#ReedbedRestoration was completed Montrose Basin Wildlife Reserve recently. Plots were cut at intervals in a priority area of Millburn Reedbed to restore the habitat which supports many nationally rare birds and a diverse range of invertebrates. #NatureRestoration Angus Council

👏Pollinator Friendly Symington shows that a small group of committed volunteers can make a big difference to their community and the wider area.

🦋Please consider if you could replicate some of their work and plant some wildflowers in your garden to help our pollinators.

🥳Great to see Pollinator Friendly Symington being recognised in Parliament - a fab partner doing amazing work for #pollinators and #Wildlife 🥰🦋

Volunteers with Pollinator Friendly Symington, who are one of our Irvine to Girvan Nectar Network Irvine to Girvan Nectar Network members, have been recognised with a motion in the Scottish Parliament by Elena Whitham MSP.

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#pollinators #wildflowers
📸© Lynne Bates, hedge planting

We are seeking new Trustees to help reinforce our governing body's knowledge, expertise and diversity.

This year we would especially welcome applications from individuals with governance, legal or accounting/finance experience

Apply before 31 May.
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Would you like to help us create a snorkel trail for #Orkney ? Join us and Stromness Museum, online on the 16th April or in person on the 18th May, to share your thoughts. shorturl.at/nINPX

Orkney Library Orkney Islands Council Liam McArthur MSP orkney.com BBC Radio Orkney Orkney Archaeology

With the Scottish Government 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿's stated target to reverse declines in biodiversity by 2030 we need Local Nature Conservation Sites, as part of a wider Nature Network, now more than ever. Bruce Wilson COSLA HeadsofPlanningScot Place Standard Tool (PST) RTPI Scotland Scot Gov Planning, Architecture and Regeneration Scotland's Improvement Districts

The expansion of native woodland at our Loch Ardinning Wildlife Reserve near Strathblane was featured on BBC Radio Scotland Out of Doors. Hear from staff and corporate volunteers laying mulch mats around tree saplings to help them grow.

📻Listen at 1.07.33 bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0…

An exceptional display of Juniper Rust (Gymnosporangium clavariiforme) on just about every Juniper (Juniperus comunis) round the east end of Goose Green at Bawsinch NR Scottish Wildlife Trust yesterday. Clearly loving all the rain. Scottish Fungi ENHS

We are delighted to welcome back the resident breeding male osprey to our Loch of the Lowes Wildlife Reserve Wildlife Reserve for his 13th breeding season. View the live webcam here: scottishwildlifetrust.org.uk/ospreycam