Post Category: Wildlife

News

Biomatrix platforms create new habitats in Leith

Exciting new addition to the basin areas - creating homes for wildlife and increasing plant diversity

News

77 INNS (Invasive Non Native Species) treatment tasks in 2022

At this time of year, the conservation team does a lot of number crunching to see how many tasks were ...

Wildlife

An otterly healthy diet

Regular readers will be aware that we currently have two families of otters on the river. Two sets of mothers ...

News

Boosting Biodiversity by planting wildflowers and sowing seeds

This mild extended autumn has really helped us with this years planting season. Back in March Trust Manager Helen was ...

Events

Tales from the Riverbank was a ‘wild’ success

Family event enjoyed by dozens of families looked at the trials and tribulations of life on the riverbank

Wildlife

Electro-fishing Survey – the results are in

To give the river a much-needed health check, Charlotte worked with Forth River Trust in July to carry out an ...

Wildlife

Electro-fishing with Charlotte and Forth Rivers Trust

Two weeks ago our Conservation Officer Charlotte completed her ‘Introduction to Electrofishing’ training near Inverness run by the Ness District ...

Wildlife

Magic Mayflies

Wonderful photo of a mayfly emerging on the river this week by David Stevens. How much do you know about ...

Volunteers

Giant Hogweed work gets underway

Regular readers will know that we work each year to tackle this toxic and invasive plant which loves to grow ...

Volunteers

Spring volunteering its rubbish, oh and railings, path edges, drains, willow fences …..

All the rakes, brushes & cutting tools have been given a huge work out over the last few months to ...

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Blog

Volunteers get to know their Bryophytes !

While wading in the river the conservation team often notice masses of different mosses and liverworts that are blanketing the ...

Blog

Eels can climb! So we make ropes to help them scale the rivers barriers

Volunteers Make Eel Ropes with Jack Wooton from Forth Rivers Trust

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