Deer on the hillside at Little Loch Broom this morning, before we started working on the oysters. #RestorationForth
Great fun working with Project Seagrass and #RestorationForth today planting seagrass seeds 🌱 They aim to have 4 hectares of seagrass planted by 2025 contributing to biodiversity and carbon sequestration - definitely check out this exciting project if you haven’t yet!!
Hardy #volunteers gathering in chilly temperatures at low tide today for the latest #RestorationForth #seagrass seeding in #EastLothian - supported by team members from wwfscotland 🌍 The Ecology Centre Scottish Seabird Centre Project Seagrass ELC Countryside Rangers Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh
#naturebasedsolutions
This is a special week! We have found the first seedlings in the Firth of Forth 🥳 and this week last year I joined Project Seagrass 🥳
#Restorationforth
A historic day - first oysters in 100 years restored to the Firth of Forth 🦪 proud to be a part of this team, wonderful work by Heriot-Watt University, Marine Conservation Society, wwfscotland 🌍 & all partners. Swipe for a great piece on BBC Radio 4 by Caitlin Godfrey introducing the #RestorationForth project 🏴
Meet the seagrass superheroes who helped plant 135,000 seagrass seeds in the Firth of Forth last month! 🌱
#RestorationForth wouldn’t be possible without the support of local communities, and it’s wonderful to hear what the project means to them. 👏
Final prep for the upcoming movement of our #nativeoysters to the #restorationforth project. First oysters going back in the #firthofforth in perhaps one hundred years!!
Spent the day cleaning oysters for #RestorationForth who will be putting them into the Firth of Forth next week. Cracking day for it with our hosts Heriot-Watt University
A historic moment as Cab Sec Màiri McAllan helped return the first native oysters to the Firth of Forth in 100 years. 🦪
A result of partnership project #RestorationForth - the initiative will restore and protect local marine environments, while reconnecting communities.
The last #nativeoyster through the grader for today. This is prep for the upcoming movement for the #restorationforth project bring #oysters back to the #firthofforth for the first time almost 100 years
With the horror that is the environmental news this week it felt good to be doing something positive for nature today. Cleaning oysters for release as part of #RestorationForth .
#BioSecurity #Rewild
Had a great morning planting sea grass on the Firth of Forth with #RestorationForth today using the novel ‘direct injection’ technique. Fingers are crossed for germination! Fantastic collaborations and funding from the Former NatureScot account #NatureRestorationFund
Citizen science workshops for #RestorationForth ! Come along to hear the project's restoration updates & how you can get involved in upcoming oyster restoration & citizen science 🦪 events held at Musselburgh & Tyninghame, sign up 👉 eventbrite.com/cc/restoration…
'Wild Isles' reception at Scottish Parliament tonight with WWF and Silverback Films.
Delighted to be invited as part of Restoration Forth project.
#restorationforth #WildIsles #wwf #silverbackfilms
Brilliant day with #RestorationForth cleaning oysters. Hard work but nice company and good tunes Brad Paisley made to day go pretty quick.
Meet the seagrass superheroes who helped plant 135,000 seagrass seeds in the Firth of Forth last month! 🌱
#RestorationForth wouldn’t be possible without the support of local communities, and it’s wonderful to hear what the project means to them. 👏
Great to support #RestorationForth for their seagrass update & oyster citizen science workshop at Tyninghame last week. Gathering community feedback on plans for an oyster citizen science programme that will be developed this year 🦪🌿
