New riverbank woodlands are being planted across Scotland to help tackle rising temperatures due to climate change, restore habitats and reinstate healthy river systems that support some of Scotland’s most iconic species including otter, osprey, and Atlantic salmon. Foresters at Forestry and Land Scotland (FLS) are now planting hundreds of hectares of new ‘riparian’ (riverside) woodlands, in all regions, but …

 

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Fifty mature trees that were badly damaged during Storm Arwen have been repurposed from a forest into the river bed of a burn in north east Scotland, in an effort to boost natural habitat, particularly for endangered Atlantic salmon. The mature spruces had been blown and snapped during the winter storms in Forestry and Land Scotland’s (FLS) Scolty Woods outside …

 

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