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Sustainable Kirriemuir – The Kirriemuir BioBlitz 2022
Sustainable Kirriemuir (SK) formed an Action for Nature group after writing a Community Climate Action Plan for the town. The group decided to run a BioBlitz in and around the Kirriemuir area, setting out to discover as many plants, animals and fungi as possible and...
St Mary’s Drainage Strategy in Dundee
Scottish Water, NatureScot and SEPA are working with Dundee City Council to develop an exciting and innovative project to improve the way storm water is managed and reduce flood risk in the St Mary’s area of Dundee. The project will showcase what can be achieved by...
Naturalised Grasslands in Parks and Greenspaces
Across Dundee, green space comprises an impressive 62% of the city's urban area, and more than two thirds of this is publicly accessible. This project aims to bolster wildlife by dedicating more than 57 hectares for the benefit of biodiversity and climate resilience....
Broughty Ferry & Monifieth Active Travel Improvements
Linking Coastal Communities Dundee City Council and Angus Council are working together to improve the National Cycle Network Route 1 between Broughty Ferry Castle and Monifieth. Following early consultation with residents and businesses in 2019, initial proposals...
Involving Communities in Monitoring Landscape Changes
Growing Bioregioning Through Community Science aims to chart how communities in Tayside can help monitor landscape change through community science practices. Community Science is different to the more commonly used term of citizen science Citizen science is usually...
Strengthening and Developing Community-led Food Growing
This project is investigating how community-led food growing can be strengthened and developed in Tayside. Empowering this very important part of Tayside’s food system was one of the many recommendations made at the conference ‘Feeding Tayside Through The Climate...
River Ericht Catchment Restoration Initiative
The River Ericht: one of the most important spawning grounds for Atlantic salmon in Europe, is in crisis. Extreme weather caused by climate change, historic and current land management practices and invasive species, are damaging the quantity and quality of water in...
Westmuir Community Woodland – Market of Muir
The Westmuir Community Development Trust Charity was set-up in 2004 and its first project was the development of the Community Woodland located alongside our village. It quickly became a treasured place for people in the area to walk and enjoy accessing a locally...
Restoring the River South Esk in Angus
The launch of the Scottish Government’s Nature Restoration Fund in Spring 2021 provided an opportunity for the River South Esk Catchment Partnership to work with Angus landowners on a successful £140,000 Nature Restoration Fund development phase bid to shape the...
B-Lines Strathmore People & Pollinators
From April 2022-24, Buglife ran a B-lines project, funded by the National Lottery Heritage Fund and Gannochy Trust, spanning the Strathmore Valley from Montrose to Dunkeld increasing the area and quality of pollinator-friendly wildflower-rich habitat by 24.8ha. The...
Videos
Beach erosion in Montrose
Vicky Whitecross reflects on her decades of walking the beach in Montrose. The dunes at Montrose are being lost and the rate of erosion is increasing. Angus Climate Hub is collecting and sharing the experiences of local people and the changes and impacts they are noticing.
Storm Babet flooding in Angus
Storm Babet brought unprecedented rainfall and flooding across Angus. Caroline Monro, a Brechin resident, was rescued by Scottish Fire & Rescue Service. This is a storm experience collected by the Angus Climate Hub as a community record of the impacts of Storm Babet.
Loss of lives and livelihoods
Angus suffered heartbreaking, life changing storms. Lives and livelihoods were lost. The impacts of these events will live with those affected. Angus Climate Hub is recording some of the brave, local voices of those involved, to understand what it is to live and work through these storms.
Urban ReLeaf Citizen Science Project
Urban ReLeaf, is a city-wide Horizon Uk funded, citizen-science initiative in Dundee, engaging the community to contribute their observations and perceptions of greenspaces across the city. By harnessing the collective input of citizens, the project strives to enhance the benefits derived from these greenspaces and ensure they cater to the diverse needs of the community. This is a European project being carried out with 5 other European Cities. It will run till summer 2026 and the data gathered will feed into Council strategies such as the Open Space Strategy, providing valuable citizen produce qualitative data.