The Duke of Roxburghe announced a £51,250 Fallago Environment Fund grant to help BorderUnion deliver its fantastic Schools Countryside Day over the next 5 years. This annual event teaches #ScottishBorders P5 pupils about the environment, #farming , food & rural life.

Check out this fantastic opportunity to get involved with the LIFE WADER project. Become a Shorebird Champion and volunteer some time to help protect the shorebirds of Lindisfarne Nature Reserve.
More details on the project can be found here: tweedforum.org/our-work/life-…

Our contractors mulch surface vegetation ahead of tree-planting in the Upper Tweed Valley. The mulch helps suppress weeds & reduce bracken which competes with the trees for nutrients & light. New native trees will help reduce downstream flood risk & enhance the environment.

The Fallago Environment Fund has awarded a £50k grant to Destination Tweed UK’s Designed Landscapes project to help plant landscape trees that will be visible to users of the new River Tweed Trail & provide many environmental benefits #destinationtweeduk

Over 100 engineered log structures have been created as part of our Eddleston Water Project. Important in natural flood management, slowing the flow of excess water downstream by directing it into land on either side of the river channel. They also allow fish to pass underneath.

Two years in the making! There is now an extra 7ha of new native woodland right on the banks of the Lower Tweed at Horncliffe. Funded through Forestry Commission - EWCO, this scheme extends a valuable area of ancient woodland and increases riparian buffer to the Lower Tweed.

The River Tweed salmon season opens today, but did you know that planting trees on riverbanks can help salmon populations?
The South of Scotland Tree Planting project has grants of up to £1,000 for riverside tree planting, find out how to apply here: tinyurl.com/3vcwmpch

We've been overseeing Phase 4 of peatland restoration works at Wemyss & March Estate. Over 20,000 metres of peat hag have been re-profiled along with peat bunding works to manage water flow.
This project is supported by the Peatland Action fund.
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We’re working with #ScottishBorders landowners to help protect and increase populations of curlew, oystercatcher, lapwing, snipe and redshank in the Lammermuir Hills. Discover more in this fantastic story map: tinyurl.com/57z8x4br

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Tweed Forum Conservation Manager, Derek Robeson & Tweed catchment farmer, Jim Sinclair of Crookston Farm, feature in this fantastic video from SCOTLAND: The Big Picture. Derek & Jim outline how we work with farmers & landowners to create native woodlands & #slowtheflow for local communities.

Borders environment charity launches guide to boost biodiversity in rivers peeblesshirenews.com/news/24001949.…

Another installment in Destination Tweed UK's, 'Meet the Projects' series! Thanks to support from DT, our long-standing #TweedInvasivesProject will support volunteers to get involved in surveying, data gathering and direct control of 5 main target species. tinyurl.com/ew2ytfwc

The Winter issue is now out! Featuring the Eddleston Water Project, ecoacoustics for dormouse surveys, implications of rewilding for amphibians and reptiles, restoration of heathland from former conifer
plantation in Suffolk, and much more

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Check out our new The Fishmongers' Company-commissioned & funded free guide to riverside tree planting and help protect #Atlanticsalmon from some of the effects of #climatechange . The Guide shares some of our two decades of tree-planting experience. Download here tinyurl.com/yc67umzv

Are you looking for shade & shelter on your farm? Grant funding for clumps of #nativetrees , specimen #trees or small copses available now through the South of Scotland Tree Planting Grant. Contact us for details on 01896 849723 or tinyurl.com/2k4v3853

Meet the Projects - Reviving the Wild Heart of Southern Scotland 💚

Delivered by Borders Forest Trust, a landscape scale ecological restoration initiative to restore a mosaic of natural habitats. Through Destination Tweed, 52,500 trees and shrubs will be planted by volunteers.

Meet the Projects - Pollinators Along the Tweed 🐝

Pollinators Along the Tweed is a partnership project with BuglifeScotland set to restore wildflower-rich habitat along the #RiverTweed as part of the #Destinationtweeduk source-to-sea river revitalisation project.

We’re delighted with this river and wetland restoration work on the upper Breamish with Linhope Estate and Dynamic Rivers. We always strive to get the biggest catchment benefits using the most cost-effective approach, and this is a great example!

Trees are the magnificent backdrop to many of our outdoor adventures so this #NationalTreeWeek we are celebrating the native woodland and designed landscapes of the River Tweed and our projects which aim to conserve and protect these environments.