Alliance for Scotland's Rainforest
@asrainforest.bsky.social
We're a partnership of 24 very different organisations who love Scotland's temperate rainforest, and want to see it protected and restored. You can find out lots more about us on our website https://savingscotlandsrainforest.org.uk/ #ScotlandsRainforest
You'll normally see Prickly featherwort in #ScotlandsRainforest growing mixed up with other liverworts, filmy ferns and lichens, often on rocks or at the base of trees. It's pretty rare elsewhere, making our populations important. 📷 Stan Phillips
November 19, 2025 at 1:05 PM
You'll normally see Prickly featherwort in #ScotlandsRainforest growing mixed up with other liverworts, filmy ferns and lichens, often on rocks or at the base of trees. It's pretty rare elsewhere, making our populations important. 📷 Stan Phillips
Have you ever visited Dunollie Wood in Oban? It might be at the heart of Scotland's busiest port town, but somehow it's managed to cling onto some very special wildlife #ScotlandsRainforest buff.ly/4Ebbjqv
November 18, 2025 at 10:30 AM
Have you ever visited Dunollie Wood in Oban? It might be at the heart of Scotland's busiest port town, but somehow it's managed to cling onto some very special wildlife #ScotlandsRainforest buff.ly/4Ebbjqv
Is Ariundle Scotland's most magical woodland? The National thinks it is! I mean, it's got to be up there... buff.ly/KuiORHg
📷 Ben Andrew
📷 Ben Andrew
November 12, 2025 at 11:30 AM
Is Ariundle Scotland's most magical woodland? The National thinks it is! I mean, it's got to be up there... buff.ly/KuiORHg
📷 Ben Andrew
📷 Ben Andrew
Join the Integrating Trees Network for an online Tea and Trees with Crofters event, 11 Nov, 6–7 pm. During this informal session, you can share your knowledge and experience, and chat with other crofters, Scottish Forestry and Woodland Trust staff. buff.ly/ehaa7QK
📷 Richard Faulks
📷 Richard Faulks
November 5, 2025 at 1:55 PM
Join the Integrating Trees Network for an online Tea and Trees with Crofters event, 11 Nov, 6–7 pm. During this informal session, you can share your knowledge and experience, and chat with other crofters, Scottish Forestry and Woodland Trust staff. buff.ly/ehaa7QK
📷 Richard Faulks
📷 Richard Faulks
It seems to be a fantastic year for acorns in #ScotlandsRainforest! Are these the oaks of the future?
October 27, 2025 at 3:23 PM
It seems to be a fantastic year for acorns in #ScotlandsRainforest! Are these the oaks of the future?
#ScotlandsRainforest grows in a zone with high rainfall right through the year. But with Wildfire Warnings becoming more common in Scotland’s springs and summers, how much of a threat do fires pose to this already vulnerable habitat? buff.ly/zlUM1Fh
📷 Samuel Lindsay
📷 Samuel Lindsay
October 6, 2025 at 11:47 AM
#ScotlandsRainforest grows in a zone with high rainfall right through the year. But with Wildfire Warnings becoming more common in Scotland’s springs and summers, how much of a threat do fires pose to this already vulnerable habitat? buff.ly/zlUM1Fh
📷 Samuel Lindsay
📷 Samuel Lindsay
Can you help remove invasive rhododendrons from #ScotlandsRainforest? @actinargyll.bsky.social is contracting for rope specialists to help tackle some of the most challenging sites. Is this role for you? buff.ly/iYWJKVp
📷 Caz Austen
📷 Caz Austen
October 6, 2025 at 9:41 AM
Can you help remove invasive rhododendrons from #ScotlandsRainforest? @actinargyll.bsky.social is contracting for rope specialists to help tackle some of the most challenging sites. Is this role for you? buff.ly/iYWJKVp
📷 Caz Austen
📷 Caz Austen
This is your last chance to apply for an amazing opportunity with National Trust for Scotland and Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh for a two-year role working on some of the finest lichen habitats in Scotland, including #ScotlandsRainforest! The closing date is tomorrow
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📷 Laura Corbe
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📷 Laura Corbe
October 2, 2025 at 1:17 PM
This is your last chance to apply for an amazing opportunity with National Trust for Scotland and Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh for a two-year role working on some of the finest lichen habitats in Scotland, including #ScotlandsRainforest! The closing date is tomorrow
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📷 Laura Corbe
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📷 Laura Corbe
Both Knapdale and Loch Arkaig have had the honour of being included in the first four Nature30 sites to be announced by NatureScot. This recognises areas that deliver positive, sustained, and long-term outcomes for biodiversity 👏 buff.ly/waKiLiD
📷 Jill Donnachie & Richard Thompson
📷 Jill Donnachie & Richard Thompson
September 29, 2025 at 9:45 AM
Both Knapdale and Loch Arkaig have had the honour of being included in the first four Nature30 sites to be announced by NatureScot. This recognises areas that deliver positive, sustained, and long-term outcomes for biodiversity 👏 buff.ly/waKiLiD
📷 Jill Donnachie & Richard Thompson
📷 Jill Donnachie & Richard Thompson
There's not much still in bloom at this time of the year in #ScotlandsRainforest. But one flower to look out for is Devil's-bit scabious. The story of its name goes that the Devil, apparently upset at the flower's healing abilities, bit off its roots. 😈
📷 Jenny Tweedie
📷 Jenny Tweedie
September 4, 2025 at 2:17 PM
There's not much still in bloom at this time of the year in #ScotlandsRainforest. But one flower to look out for is Devil's-bit scabious. The story of its name goes that the Devil, apparently upset at the flower's healing abilities, bit off its roots. 😈
📷 Jenny Tweedie
📷 Jenny Tweedie
Event: Walking and talking trees. Discover how farmers Katharine and David Lowrie are transforming their farm to dramatically increase biodiversity by planting new native broadleaves on a third of their land. 9 Sep 2025 10AM-1PM, Tighnabruaich. buff.ly/QRNqbrS
📷 Niall Benvie
📷 Niall Benvie
September 2, 2025 at 2:43 PM
Event: Walking and talking trees. Discover how farmers Katharine and David Lowrie are transforming their farm to dramatically increase biodiversity by planting new native broadleaves on a third of their land. 9 Sep 2025 10AM-1PM, Tighnabruaich. buff.ly/QRNqbrS
📷 Niall Benvie
📷 Niall Benvie
You can see fungi all-year-round in #ScotlandsRainforest, but autumn is a particularly good time to look out for different species.
📷 John MacPherson Laura Corbe
📷 John MacPherson Laura Corbe
September 2, 2025 at 12:09 PM
You can see fungi all-year-round in #ScotlandsRainforest, but autumn is a particularly good time to look out for different species.
📷 John MacPherson Laura Corbe
📷 John MacPherson Laura Corbe
Fly agaric will be starting to appear in the birch woodlands of #ScotlandsRainforest, a sign that autumn isn't far away. These fabled fungi form symbiotic relationships with the trees around them, but they're toxic to humans. 📷 Ben Andrew
August 28, 2025 at 1:30 PM
Fly agaric will be starting to appear in the birch woodlands of #ScotlandsRainforest, a sign that autumn isn't far away. These fabled fungi form symbiotic relationships with the trees around them, but they're toxic to humans. 📷 Ben Andrew
As the seasons change in #ScotlandsRainforest, there are lots of early signs of autumn to look out for, like the red berries on rowan trees. Did you know that rowans have a long association with magic in Scotland?? 🧙 Find out more: buff.ly/LSxMd7n
📷 Andy Hay
📷 Andy Hay
August 27, 2025 at 9:45 AM
As the seasons change in #ScotlandsRainforest, there are lots of early signs of autumn to look out for, like the red berries on rowan trees. Did you know that rowans have a long association with magic in Scotland?? 🧙 Find out more: buff.ly/LSxMd7n
📷 Andy Hay
📷 Andy Hay
You might see filmy ferns growing in #ScotlandsRainforest. They're easy to mistake for moss or liverworts, but they're very very tiny ferns! The one you're most likely to see is Wilson's filmy fern, named for William Wilson, a 19th century botanist. 📷 John MacPherson
August 26, 2025 at 11:45 AM
You might see filmy ferns growing in #ScotlandsRainforest. They're easy to mistake for moss or liverworts, but they're very very tiny ferns! The one you're most likely to see is Wilson's filmy fern, named for William Wilson, a 19th century botanist. 📷 John MacPherson
Event: Walking and talking trees. Discover how farmers Katharine and David Lowrie are transforming their farm to dramatically increase biodiversity by planting new native broadleaves on a third of their land. 9 Sep 2025 10AM-1PM, Tighnabruaich. buff.ly/QRNqbrS
📷 Niall Benvie
📷 Niall Benvie
August 25, 2025 at 9:43 AM
Event: Walking and talking trees. Discover how farmers Katharine and David Lowrie are transforming their farm to dramatically increase biodiversity by planting new native broadleaves on a third of their land. 9 Sep 2025 10AM-1PM, Tighnabruaich. buff.ly/QRNqbrS
📷 Niall Benvie
📷 Niall Benvie
Help the Our Rainforest Futures project by filling in their short survey! buff.ly/YAQTW0e What you tell them will help shape a funding bid for 5 years of work across the rainforest zone, which will mobilise and equip people to get stuck in to saving #ScotlandsRainforest.
📷 John MacPherson
📷 John MacPherson
August 22, 2025 at 12:07 PM
Help the Our Rainforest Futures project by filling in their short survey! buff.ly/YAQTW0e What you tell them will help shape a funding bid for 5 years of work across the rainforest zone, which will mobilise and equip people to get stuck in to saving #ScotlandsRainforest.
📷 John MacPherson
📷 John MacPherson
Glasdrum Wood, on the edge of Loch Creran, is a remnant of #ScotlandsRainforest that's rich in woodland flowers, mosses, liverworts and lichens. This National Nature Reserve is also home to 20 species of butterfly!
📷 John MacPherson
📷 John MacPherson
August 20, 2025 at 9:53 AM
Glasdrum Wood, on the edge of Loch Creran, is a remnant of #ScotlandsRainforest that's rich in woodland flowers, mosses, liverworts and lichens. This National Nature Reserve is also home to 20 species of butterfly!
📷 John MacPherson
📷 John MacPherson
Find out more about what @actinargyll.bsky.social have been up to in the last few weeks with their August update - including a visit to #ScotlandsRainforest by @jennimintomsp.bsky.social (check out those brollies!)
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August 14, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Find out more about what @actinargyll.bsky.social have been up to in the last few weeks with their August update - including a visit to #ScotlandsRainforest by @jennimintomsp.bsky.social (check out those brollies!)
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Hazel gloves is an odd-looking fungus that's a specialist of hazel trees in temperate rainforest. It doesn't parasitise the tree but instead grows on another fungus, called the glue crust fungus, which sticks branches together.
📷 Ben Mitchell & Jenny Tweedie #ScotlandsRainforest
📷 Ben Mitchell & Jenny Tweedie #ScotlandsRainforest
July 31, 2025 at 12:55 PM
Hazel gloves is an odd-looking fungus that's a specialist of hazel trees in temperate rainforest. It doesn't parasitise the tree but instead grows on another fungus, called the glue crust fungus, which sticks branches together.
📷 Ben Mitchell & Jenny Tweedie #ScotlandsRainforest
📷 Ben Mitchell & Jenny Tweedie #ScotlandsRainforest
There's still time to take part in the Big Butterfly Count! If you live in the rainforest zone, look out for species like the pearl-bordered fritillary 👇 buff.ly/4pAZzyX #ScotlandsRainforest
📷 Peter Eeles
📷 Peter Eeles
July 31, 2025 at 11:02 AM
There's still time to take part in the Big Butterfly Count! If you live in the rainforest zone, look out for species like the pearl-bordered fritillary 👇 buff.ly/4pAZzyX #ScotlandsRainforest
📷 Peter Eeles
📷 Peter Eeles
The hazelwoods of #ScotlandsRainforest are ancient, special places, some of them stretching back 10,000 years. Today their unique habitat is home to incredible wildlife, including rare mosses, liverworts & lichens. This is Ballachuan buff.ly/1pmH1SD
📷 John MacPherson
📷 John MacPherson
July 29, 2025 at 2:12 PM
The hazelwoods of #ScotlandsRainforest are ancient, special places, some of them stretching back 10,000 years. Today their unique habitat is home to incredible wildlife, including rare mosses, liverworts & lichens. This is Ballachuan buff.ly/1pmH1SD
📷 John MacPherson
📷 John MacPherson
The sheer range of lichens that you'll find in #ScotlandsRainforest is a bit 🤯! Look closely, and you'll see different species all mixed up together with mosses and liverworts and filmy ferns and fungi and slime moulds...
📷 Gordon Willoughby, Jill Donnachie, Gus Routledge
📷 Gordon Willoughby, Jill Donnachie, Gus Routledge
July 17, 2025 at 1:45 PM
The sheer range of lichens that you'll find in #ScotlandsRainforest is a bit 🤯! Look closely, and you'll see different species all mixed up together with mosses and liverworts and filmy ferns and fungi and slime moulds...
📷 Gordon Willoughby, Jill Donnachie, Gus Routledge
📷 Gordon Willoughby, Jill Donnachie, Gus Routledge
If you're a rainforest practitioner, tell Our Rainforest Futures what networking and learning opportunities you would be interested in: workshops, conferences, field trips? But hurry! Their survey closes tomorrow buff.ly/MopAn4M #ScotlandsRainforest
📷 Helen Pugh
📷 Helen Pugh
July 17, 2025 at 10:36 AM
If you're a rainforest practitioner, tell Our Rainforest Futures what networking and learning opportunities you would be interested in: workshops, conferences, field trips? But hurry! Their survey closes tomorrow buff.ly/MopAn4M #ScotlandsRainforest
📷 Helen Pugh
📷 Helen Pugh
This is the ASR's vision for #ScotlandsRainforest. We want all of Scotland's rainforest to be restored, and its size doubled, so it becomes a better functioning and more resilient ecosystem. We've come a long way, but there's a long way still to go!
July 3, 2025 at 2:40 PM
This is the ASR's vision for #ScotlandsRainforest. We want all of Scotland's rainforest to be restored, and its size doubled, so it becomes a better functioning and more resilient ecosystem. We've come a long way, but there's a long way still to go!