Managing Edinburgh’s greenspaces for pollinators
This blog post on Scottish Pollinators (4 October 2022) shares information about managing spaces for our pollinators and Edinburgh Living Landscape. If you are a school in Edinburgh, is there a greenspace like this near you?
Kings and Queens in the Gaelic Landscape
In this Scotland’s Nature blog post (October 3, 2022) by NatureScot, Roddy Maclean looks at Gaelic ‘royal’ names in Scotland’s landscape.
Scotland’s Landscape Monitoring Programme
Scotland’s Nature blog post (29 June 2022) describes how landscape across Scotland it is monitored. It announces the publication of three new indicators: Urban Greenspace, Local Landscape Areas and Urban Vacant & Derelict Land, and shares useful statistics. This may be useful for Social Studies students at secondary and tertiary [...]
The Scientist / The Climate Project
What’s it like being a scientist working to restore degraded peatland? Checkout this short film from Moors For The Future Partnership, shared by the John Muir Trust.
Scottish waterfalls – what’s in a name?
Scotland’s Nature blog describes how ‘Eas’ in the Gaelic landscape marks a named waterfall in this post Land of Falling Water (20 October 2021). A range of Scottish waterfalls and places are illustrated, along with their Gaelic names.
Gaelic farming culture, past and future – audio episode
In this ‘Farmerama’ radio episode about Gaelic culture in the Highlands of Scotland, a farmer’s son, Col Gordon, learns about the pre-colonial attitudes of the Gaels towards the land. He discovers that people belong to the land, not the other way around. Col explores how we can find a way [...]
