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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 ...

News

Hanging up the Waders

This week saw a calendar milestone for our volunteers as we packed away the drying greenhouse and tested all our ...

Learning

Winter River Studies—Adventurous Outdoor Education Indeed

Remember back in the summer when the water levels were disturbingly low and Charlotte was walking groups of children up ...

News

Litter Picking in Leith

Each months largest litter pick is in Leith on the first Wednesday - where volunteers and local business work to ...

News

Advent Calendar with craft Leith Beers inside sold in aid of our work

www.edinburghbeer.co.uk are showing their support for the amazing work our volunteers do by donating each time a NEW Leith Craft Beer ...

Volunteers

The Buzz of the Tea Break

On world mental health day Johnny reflects on the value of volunteering and the importance of the tea break

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

News

Discarded Doggy Do dos!

What is at the end of the Colinton Tunnel rainbow?

News

Heat maps – tracking the successes of our Giant Hogweed work

We have just completed the third year of treating Giant Hogweed on the whole length of the Water of Leith.  ...

Heron Art
Learning

Back to the outside classroom – in waders!

After a busy summer delivering outdoor fun for groups, the education programme has started this busy term with lots of ...

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 ...

Blog

Walkway resurfacing update

Unfortunately there has been some issues with the new path surface which has be laid from Lanark Road to Colinton ...

Volunteers

Passing on the knowledge

When volunteers join the Trust whether at the visitor centre or in doing practical conservation all we ask from them ...

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 ...

News

Go Wild in the City

The river seems to be teeming with life at the moment. Herons, goosanders, swans, kingfishers, dippers all spotted and photographed ...

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