Focus Projects

One of our key aims is creating landscape-scale projects across the rainforest zone

The Alliance for Scotland’s Rainforest recognises that rainforest restoration can only take place on a landscape scale, where there is an opportunity to deliver real and lasting benefits. As a voluntary partnership, ASR is unable to lead projects itself, so instead ‘adopts’ projects that conform to a particular set of criteria. Once a project has been adopted by ASR, all partner organisations will get behind it to make it as successful as possible, no matter which organisation is leading it.

These projects are in urgent need of funding…

Projects in delivery

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Knapdale Restoration Project
Knapdale Restoration Project

This project aims to work with landowners and communities in the Knapdale area to develop and deliver landscape-scale restoration, starting with the control of Rhododendron ponticum.  

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West Cowal Habitat Restoration Project
West Cowal Habitat Restoration Project

The West Cowal Habitat Restoration Project area includes the peninsulas of Kilfinan and Colintraive, which encapsulate the Kyles of Bute National Scenic Area and Isle of Bute.

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Loch Arkaig Landscape Restoration Partnership
Loch Arkaig Landscape Restoration Partnership

The Loch Arkaig catchment, in Lochaber, West Highlands, is home to important remnants of ancient Caledonian pinewood, which in this setting is even more special, as it’s also a part of Scotland’s rainforest.

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Saving Morvern’s Rainforest
Saving Morvern’s Rainforest

Led by RSPB Scotland, this project aims to enhance and restore important areas of rainforest on the Morvern peninsula, one of the most defensible and practical areas in Scotland for large scale rhododendron eradication.

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Projects in development

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South Assynt Project
South Assynt Project

This is a 30-year collaboration between the Assynt Foundation and the Woodland Trust, seeking to support community wellbeing and livelihoods through ecosystem interventions at landscape scale.

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Regenerating Craignish rainforest
Regenerating Craignish rainforest

The Regenerating Craignish Rainforest Habitats project will work with communities, landowners, households and land managers to enhance and revive the mosaic of native woodland types, species-rich grassland, wetland habitats and rough grazing land that exist here.

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The Glen Torridon Partnership Project
The Glen Torridon Partnership Project

Running from Kinlochewe to the shores of the sea, Glen Torridon is one of the most evocative landscapes in the world. Contained within the Loch Maree Complex Special Area of Conservation and including part of Beinn Eighe National Nature Reserve, this area of about 28,000 hectares contains a mosaic of rich habitats, including rainforest.

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Projects in scoping

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Loch Lomond Rainforest
Loch Lomond Rainforest

This exciting project, led by the Loch Lomond & The Trossachs National Park Authority, will help to protect and enhance the woodland – an important natural asset in tackling the twin crises of nature loss and the climate emergency.

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Only 30,000 hectares of rainforest remains in Scotland - that’s a wee bit bigger than Edinburgh.

Banner image: Ben Shieldaig pinewood, Wester Ross. Credit Phil Formby.