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Planting
Blog

Native wildflower planting along the river boosts biodiversity and supports pollinators

For the last 15 years we have been creating ‘biodiversity boost’ sites along the river. These are sites which were ...

News

Leith Boat Clean-up delivers litter, tennis balls and real ale!

Our volunteers have been cleaning up the river from source to mouth for over 30 years. Still a monthly clean ...

Learning

Talking to Primary School Children about Climate Change

It’s COP 26 and everyone’s talking climate change. Even the Primary Fives. Last week, I was with a class taking ...

News

Autumn Otter Image

This wonderful image of the otter from Tom Kelly @gowildedinburgh please do share your encounters with us

Blog

A river under pressure

With the COP26 conference is about to get underway we have been thinking about the work our river does for ...

Events

The Eel – A Forgotten Fish – Members Evening and Talk

Join us at the centre for this talk on 22nd November 7.30pm - tickets are limited and covid distancing will ...

Learning Fire-lighting
Learning

Kingfisher Club starts on 5th Nov – spaces available

Our Kingfisher Nature Club is back! This five-week drop off Friday afternoon club for 7-11 year olds is running from ...

Learning

Water of Leith YouTubers!

We have been popping up content on youtube for a while now, recent uploads are helping to spread the word ...

scything
Volunteers

Scything September

There is something evocative and beautiful about scything. Last month we upskilled our volunteer team and brought some more scythes ...

Events

Coalie Park Funday and Future

On 3rd October we hosted our first event at Coalie Park in Leith – to raise awareness of our project ...

Wildlife

Spongilla lacustris – SPONGES

Not quite enough to wash with but this amazing ‘animal’ was spotted by botanically minded volunteer Kate while wading for ...

Coalie illustration
Events

Coalie Park Improvement Project gathers pace

With some seed funding from the National Lottery and the formation of the ‘Coalie Collective’, plans to improve this rather ...

meadow
Volunteers

Marvelous Meadows

Our marvelous Meadows along the Water of Leith are full of life. This week volunteers removed invasive Himalayan Balsam & ...

Visitor Centre

Interactive Exhibition is back open

The Visitor Centre is finally back to full strength as we re-open our interactive exhibition space. The very popular water ...

Blog

Scottish Water investigations at Belford

Scottish Water are investigating a potential issue with part of their pipe infrastructure in the Water of Leith, adjacent to ...

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