The power of collaboration

Scotland’s rainforest can only be successfully restored at a landscape-scale. We need to work across habitats and boundaries, collaborating with land managers, local communities, businesses, and the public and private sector.

We are currently focusing on developing, delivering and enabling landscape-scale projects; securing significant, long-term funding; working with the Scottish Government to help it deliver on its commitment; and working with local rainforest communities to ensure restoration projects build capacity, skills and benefits.

Funding

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A Rainforest Restoration Fund, blending private and public money, is one of ASR’s key aspirations. ASR partner, Argyll & Isles Coast and Countryside Trust, is leading work to explore how natural capital finance could support rainforest restoration, and the Woodland Trust is leading a project to develop a collaborative fundraising model.

Gaining consensus

The Common Ground Forum, launched in October 2023, was instigated through ASR and has brought together more than 500 people across Scotland’s upland deer management sector to build consensus and trust. The Forum promotes a more collaborative approach to deer management, enabling stakeholders to build self-sustaining solutions.

Building capacity

ASR’s Our Rainforest Futures project aims to build the capacity of local communities to deliver long-term habitat restoration work across the west of Scotland by bringing new jobs, skills and knowledge-sharing opportunities to key areas. It is supported by the National Lottery Heritage Fund.

Image, ACT and John MacPherson