Good practice

Exemplar ways of working

The Alliance for Scotland’s Rainforest aims to demonstrate good practice in restoring and expanding this globally important habitat.

Below are some examples of large-scale partnership projects beyond the ASR Focus Projects that others can learn from.

For land managers: read our rainforest management guidance here
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Knoydart
Knoydart

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.

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Balmacara
Balmacara

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. 

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Coigach & Assynt Living Landscape Project
Coigach & Assynt Living Landscape Project

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

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Glen Creran
Glen Creran

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.

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More advice for land managers and owners

Rainforest management guidance

Banner image: Bluebells, Dalavich oakwood, Argyll. Credit John MacPherson.