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Outdoor learning: helping to heal our young people
It has long been recognised that outdoor learning can be beneficial for health and wellbeing. NatureScot recently published the evaluation of a large collaborative outdoor learning project – the Learning in Local Greenspace project – which ran between 2015 and … Continue reading
Posted in green health
Tagged green health, Green infrastructure, greenspaces, outdoor education, Outdoor learning
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Taking Cumbernauld’s Wild Ways Well to a European audience
Making more use of Scotland’s outdoors as Our Natural Health Service is an initiative being led by SNH. Paul Barclay from The Conservation Volunteers (TCV), is part of the Cumbernauld Living Landscape team and delivers an innovative green health programme, … Continue reading
Posted in active travel, gardens, green health, Green infrastructure, paths, Planning, Projects, Scotland's Protected Places, Scottish Natural Heritage, SNH, Uncategorized, urban nature, Volunteering
Tagged Cumbernauld Living Landscape, greenspaces, health, Natural Health Service, nature, NatureScot, parks, Protected Areas, ScotNature, Scottish Natural Heritage, SNH, TCV, urban nature, UROPARC, volunteers, Wild Ways Well
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Building with Nature – Greener Social Housing by Design
Scotland’s urban green spaces provide many benefits for people and nature – from opportunities to exercise; spaces to grow food; refuges for wildlife; and valuable services, such as managing flood water and mitigating the effects of air and noise pollution. … Continue reading
Posted in biodiversity, climate change, Community engagement, Flood management, Flooding, Flowers, gardens, green health, Green infrastructure, Natural Health Service, Planning, Projects, Research, Scottish Natural Heritage, SNH, Sustainable Drainage Systems, Uncategorized, urban nature
Tagged climate change, design and nature, green design, green health, Green infrastructure, greenspaces, housing associations, nature, Research, urban greenspace, urban nature
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Glasgow – the pollinator’s friend
As our largest city, with a rich industrial history, you may not immediately think of Glasgow as a place for pollinators. However, make no mistake: Glasgow is more than doing its bit for our pollinators, as SNH Pollinator Strategy Manager … Continue reading
Posted in gardens, meadow, wild flowers
Tagged Glasgow, greenspaces, pollinators, Scottish Natural Heritage, SNH
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Pollinating Edinburgh’s Living Landscape
There has been lots happening to benefit pollinators across Edinburgh, especially since the launch of the Edinburgh Living Landscape, as Hebe Carus of the Scottish Wildlife Trust revealed in a recent catch up with Jim Jeffrey, SNH Pollinator Strategy Manager. Edinburgh’s Living … Continue reading
Posted in bees, Birds, conservation, Flowers, meadow, Projects, urban nature, wild flowers
Tagged bees, butterflies, greenspaces, pollinators, RBG Edinburgh, Scottish Natural Heritage, SNH
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Collaborative working to promote positive change
Placemaking is a collaborative and creative process that includes design, development, renewal or regeneration of our urban areas. Viv Gray, one of our planning advisors, looks at the positive steps Fife Council is making towards improving green spaces for both … Continue reading
Posted in Planning
Tagged biodiversity, Fife Council, greenspaces, placemaking, Planning, Scottish Natural Heritage, SNH
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Social Housing and Green Infrastructure – Connecting people and nature
Ivan Clark, our Plan & Place-making Team Manager, is working with our partners to explore how we can deliver better quality greenspace in social housing developments. Scotland’s urban green spaces provide a range of benefits for people and nature. They … Continue reading
Our seven Green Infrastructure Fund projects
This year SNH awarded £5.8 million from its Green Infrastructure Fund to seven projects that will improve local green space in some of the most deprived, urban areas in Scotland. Match funding from other sources will result in a total … Continue reading
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Tagged Green infrastructure, greenspaces, Scottish Natural Heritage
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What is green infrastructure?
We only have to be stuck in a traffic jam, be waiting for a delayed train or not getting a mobile phone signal to realise how vital infrastructure is to us. But all of that is part of the grey, … Continue reading
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Tagged Green infrastructure, greenspaces, Scottish Natural Heritage
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Nature’s soothing way
Zeshan Akhter is a Policy and Advice Officer in our Ecosystems and Biodiversity team. She works on the communications, health, and education strands of the Scottish Biodiversity Strategy. One focus for these strands is researching ways in which nature benefits … Continue reading
Posted in biodiversity, Projects
Tagged greenspaces, local parks, nature, trees, urban nature
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