Working at a landscape scale
Scotland’s rainforest zone contains the highest quality and quantity of rainforest anywhere in Europe. Within the area, ASR has ‘adopted’ a number of landscape-scale projects, led by ASR partners and other organisations, to help facilitate and enable exemplar rainforest regeneration.
Map showing the location of the ASR’s landscape-scale focus projects in west Scotland
Spotlight projects
Beò Airceig
An ambitious 30,000-ha landscape-scale collaboration between the community and landowners in the glens surrounding Loch Arkaig. Partners are working together to expand and connect the surviving rainforest.
Appin Rainforest Regeneration
This innovative project has been created by the local community development trust. It aims to deliver economic, social and environmental benefits for the people of Appin, an area with significant rainforest remnants.
Loch Lomond
The temperate rainforest found in the National Park is some of the most accessible in Scotland. This exciting project aims to deliver both habitat restoration and an education programme for locals and visitors.
Restoring and expanding Scotland’s rainforest will provide jobs and protect the environment now and into the future. It may take decades for the rainforest to fully recover from the current level of damage and neglect, so we must start this work now for the benefit of all those who will come after us.
With this in mind, our ambition is to enable, develop and help deliver at least 30 landscape-scale projects to fully restore Scotland's rainforest by 2045.
Photos John MacPherson and Jenny Tweedie
