Post Tag: edinburgh nature

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

Events

Plant Sale 7th May 11am

Pick up a bargain & help the Water of Leith

Volunteers

Getting the River Summer Ready!

In some ways the river banks are very much like many of us in respect to not quite having the  ...

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 ...

Blog

Willow Spiling – A Traditional, Natural Solution to riverbank Erosion in the heart of Edinburgh

Read how we worked to develop a project at Roseburn to create a 'nature based solution' to erosion

Events

Plant Sale Sat 7th May 11am

Help us get ready for this event by growing on plants to support our work

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

Volunteers

Plants of the Dells by Juliet Wilson

Volunteer Juliet shares her experiences of wild plants along the river in the Dells

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