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Gordon Gray Stephens: Visualising and Saving Scotland’s Rainforest
Gordon talks to Smart Forests Radio and reflects on how the Alliance for Scotland’s Rainforest coalesced around a single shared term, “rainforest,” and why that shift in language has made a material difference in conversations with policymakers, funders, landowners, and communities.
Niall Burnside: Monitoring Scotland's Temperate Rainforests across Sea and Land
Niall Burnside, Senior Lecturer in Biogeography and Geoinformatics at the Scottish Association for Marine Science (SAMS), talks to Smart Forests Radio about marine ecosystems and their connections to Scotland 's Atlantic temperate rainforests.
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Yes! Scotland has rainforest, and very special rainforest at that. The soft wet fringes of the west coast have just the tight conditions for rainforests to form with an amazing variety of mosses, lichens, bugs and beasts. It is highly fragmented and threatened ... but a lifeline is emerging as local people and groups with bigger organisations like Woodland Trust Scotland and RSPB come together to think and act in a coordinated way.
Take a trip to RSPB Scotland's Inversnaid nature reserve on Loch Lomond. Hear about an exciting new project on the Morvern peninsula working with communities to protect, restore and expand the rainforest. Plus, learn to love lichens.
What are Scotland’s rainforests, why are they special, what are the threats and how do we look after them? Recorded on site at Taynish National Nature Reserve with Helen Bibby Senior Conservation Consultant SAC Consulting and Stan Phillips from NatureScot.
Header image: male redstart, Ben Andrew (rspb-images.com)