Good practice

Woodland management on the remote peninsula of Knoydart is an excellent example of community-led, landscape-scale rainforest restoration and expansion, with community benefit at its heart.

The Balmacara Estate, owned and managed by the National Trust for Scotland, is a beautiful mosaic of open heathland, scattered with birch woodland and some significant areas of oak and hazel rainforest, next to the coast near Kyle of Lochalsh in Ross-shire. 

Coigach & Assynt Living Landscape is based in the far north west of Scotland, a partnership of community, charity and private landowners working together.

Argyll and the Isles Coast and Countryside Trust is working with the community of Glen Creran (near Appin) to deliver a landscape-scale approach to controlling rhododendron.

These 12 best practice guidelines for developing landscape-scale ecological restoration projects have been created and endorsed by partner organisations of the Alliance for Scotland’s Rainforest (ASR).

Tackling the main threats to Scotland’s rainforest habitat requires collaborative action across multiple landholdings, with a commitment lasting many years. It can only be effective if local communities are involved and empowered at the outset.