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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.  ...

An outline of a heron on sand made from found natural materials
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 ...

News

The Survey Team make some beautiful discoveries

One of our lesser known volunteer teams is the Survey Team – a botanically minded crew who help to monitor ...

News

Keeping the Walkway trim and proper

Being attacked by nettles, wayward brambles reaching out to grab you or rain gathered in butterbur leaves soaking the bottom ...

News

Resurfacing work gets underway from Slateford to Balerno – in phases

This image is of some preliminary work to improve drainage - it is not the new surface which will be ...

News

The Murrayburn – a tributary in need of some love

On wading up this small stream last week we found a real mix of good and bad news. First the ...

Fundraising

Charlotte ran and ran and ran – 46 miles in total

Regular readers will know Charlotte our Conservation and Volunteers Officer is a very fit lass, two years ago she ran ...

Events

A Summer of Fun along the river

With the schools about to break up parents and carers are always looking for fun, preferably free things, to do ...

Volunteers

Local Companies Volunteer to help the river

This week’s there has been a surge of interest from Corporate groups to get out on the river and make ...

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