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

We agree! Happy #SpringEquinox everyone! 🥳

Last hedge laying this season, lots of smiles and humour despite the rain, along the #Pollinator Friendly Symington Wildflower verge😉
Check out the fab short video on Scottish Wildlife Trust's new community action site 👇
community.scottishwildlifetrust.org.uk/story/pollinat…
Big thanks NatureScot 🙏

Our wonderful volunteers planted up three new #wildlife hedges last week.🥰

Over 200 mixed native trees, including holly, wild and bird cherry, hawthorn, blackthorn- part of #Pollinator Friendly Symington.

A fab effort in the cold easterly winds

Big thanks NatureScot 🙏

#Hedgelaying fun this week with our wonderful, wild, willing and able volunteers, working on the wildflower verge at Symington! 😉🦋🐝
Maybe an 'Ayrshire Hedge Laying Society' in the making!?🤔
Well done everyone, fantastic work for #pollinators and #wildlife 🙏🥳🦇🐛🐦‍⬛🐞

Huge thanks to our many partners for all their efforts to help Scotland's pollinators. From Shetland to The Scottish Borders, from Aberdeen to the Western Isles. to the fab. Irvine to Girvan Nectar Network, Pollinators along the Tweed, KSB and many more ... thank you 🐝🌼🦋

Hear how our volunteers and Pollinator Friendly Symington got on, learning the art of conservation hedge laying.👇

📻🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿Out Of Doors joined in the fun, as we swung our bill hooks with the patient and professional hedge layer, Graeme Walker 😉🦋🐝
11:00mins
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Great to see Shetland Islands Council helping our vital #Pollinators 👇 🙏🐝🦋

First Minister Humza Yousaf announced details of the Scottish Government's plans for distributing farm funding. The agricultural proposals put forward are out of step with wider Government targets for nature and climate.

scottishwildlifetrust.org.uk/news/rural-fun…

#NFUS2024

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Click below to book a place.
bit.ly/3Oy6sNT NatureScot Lorna Cole Celine Delabre Irvine to Girvan Nectar Network Scottish Wildlife Trust

A fab day with our volunteers full of fun, learning and billhooks with hedge layer, Graeme Walker.🥳
Well managed hedges are fantastic wildlife corridors, provide food & nesting sites for #pollinators #birds reduce flooding, give shade and shelter, store carbon and more🐝🦇🦉🙏

🦋How we made wildflower meadows using green hay, check out our blog 🧐👇
tinyurl.com/h4rvb3xk
Perfect for #pollinators , people and #wildlife

🦋Plotting and planning for pollinators with the community- led Pollinator Friendly Symington Project

Erected NatureScot designed sign at the wildflower verge, for #wildlife , people and #pollinators

🥶Dreaming of warm days and buzzing, fluttering, beautiful wee beasties.🐝🙏

Not too long now until native trees such as willow and hawthorn will provide spring blossom and a vital source of food for pollinators. Trees are amazing and contribute hugely to a healthy climate and biodiversity ... what a great resource.

Our fab farm partner Balsar Glen on BBC Radio 4
talking nature friendly farming and our work with them for #pollinators 🐝🥰👇

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Happy #StAndrewsDay and #NationalTreeWeek
planting lots of tree's with Pollinator Friendly Symington 🐝
Fun in the sun, then a feast to finish, huge thanks to our amazing volunteers for all the hard work this year 🙏🥳
Gratitude to funders NatureScot The FairWays Foundation
#TreeParty

Our new report, The Potential for Nature-based Solutions in Scottish Agriculture report, calls for a paradigm shift in #farming to address #climatechange & #biodiversity loss to support #farmers & #crofters in sustainable food production

scottishwildlifetrust.org.uk/news/nature-ba…

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A lovely morning getting to grips with the art of peening #scythes with our volunteers, kindly helped by Martin, our Scottish Wildlife Trust Head of Finance and expert basher!😉
Fuelled by biscuits and coffee, we cleaned, peened and sharpened ready for next year.
Great team effort 🥳🙏

⏳The Scottish Government consultation on tackling the nature emergency needs your views by 14 December.
Sharing your thoughts could make a fundamental difference to the future of Scotland’s wildlife and landscapes.
scottishwildlifetrust.org.uk/our-work/our-a…

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#WorkingforWildlife

A chilly but fun day with our fab farming partner Balsar Glen recording for BBC Radio 4 'On our farm'