📣 For #WorldEnvironmentDay, we're highlighting and celebrating some of the wonderful projects featured on the Kana directory that are helping to protect and restore our environment 📣
🌳 Bowshiel, developed by Forest Carbon Ltd, is an inspiring family-led project to restore an ancient oakwood in Southern Scotland. When the land was purchased, it was an over-grown, neglected former plantation of (mainly) non-native conifers. However, through years of hard work, the landowners and their children have felled non-native trees and cleared scrub to allow the ancient oakwood to re-colonise the valley.
🪨 UNDO's first UK enhanced rock weathering project encompasses a network of agricultural partners across Scotland and northern England. Enhanced rock weathering is a nature-based technology that permanently locks away CO₂ from the atmosphere. The geological process of weathering has happened for millions of years, where CO₂ from rainwater is locked up as a solid bicarbonate when it reacts with silicate rocks. UNDO accelerates this natural process by spreading crushed silicate rock with a high reactive surface area onto agricultural land, where plants and microbes in the soil speed up the weathering process.
🌾 ANGUS DAVIDSON has undertaken over 400 hectares of peatland restoration on the Fannich Estate, situated in Ross & Cromarty in the Scottish Highlands. The Allt a' Choire Mhoir project is the fourth phase of work on the estate, adjoining the third phase and creating a homogenous area of restored peatland. Peatland restoration projects reverse the damage caused by poor land management, drainage and harvesting, helping them to absorb rather than emit carbon emissions.
🦋 The Honeygar project, managed by Somerset Wildlife Trust, serves to restore habitats to support a wide range of wildlife in part of an interlinked network of internationally important wetlands, forming the Avalon Marshes area of Somerset’s Levels and Moors. This restoration work focuses on grazing marsh, wetlands and relic fen.
You can learn more about these projects on the Kana Directory, linked in the comments ↩️📌
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