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Argyll Countryside Trust
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We sustainably maintain, enhance and promote the coast and countryside of Argyll and the Isles through our work. (SC044733)
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Our September ABCAN newsletter is out! Climate cinema, oyster and rainforest regeneration at West Loch Tarbert, our Food Resilience webinar series, the Great British Beach Clean and a first look at Echoes to Action.
Read it here: buff.ly/V0xwwxZ
#FoodResilience #ClimateAction #abplace2b
Newsletter cover reading "ABCAN Newsletter September 2026" over a calm river and marshland, framed by bare foreground branches, a low bridge at left, and distant rolling hills beneath a dramatic cloudy sky.
September 21, 2026 at 11:52 AM
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We were delighted to welcome Jenni Minto MSP, Scotland's Rainforest Champion, to the Hub for Argyll Rainforest Network Day. She later commended @asrainforest.bsky.social and our West Cowal Habitat Recording project in Parliament 🌳
Watch the debate here: buff.ly/KlCN9RV
#ScotlandsRainforest
Community group gathered for an outdoor meeting in a woodland clearing, people seated on benches and logs listening to Jenni Minto MSP by a tree, with a wooden fence and tall trees forming a natural amphitheater.
September 18, 2026 at 12:09 PM
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Lucy joined a @@savebutterflies.bsky.social event last week, learning how two Argyll farms manage grassland for the Marsh Fritillary. Light cattle grazing, uneven tussocky ground and scabious-rich meadows are proving a winning mix for this rare butterfly 🦋
#ScotlandsRainforest #PeatlandACTION
A meadow of tall grasses dotted with many small purple wildflowers, sloping toward a dark treeline with a stone cottage at the right, evoking a quiet rural landscape. Dew-covered funnel of spider silk woven among grass and dry stems, sheltering a curled brown leaf and dotted with many tiny dark specks.
September 11, 2026 at 2:08 PM
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ABCAN is launching Food Resilience in Our Changing Climate webinar series. First up, 22 Sept: deer management and rainforest regeneration with Stephen Sloss from Forest, Field and Glen and our Rainforest Manager Ian Dow.
Free, online: bit.ly/3SxRGvX
#FoodResilience #ScotlandsRainforest
Flyer for ABCAN's "Food Resilience in Our Changing Climate" webinar series. Lists three free online sessions: deer management on 22 September, seed sovereignty on 20 October, and thriving seas on 17 November, each with date, speaker names and a short description. Includes a "book your free place" link and the ABCAN and ACT logos.
September 9, 2026 at 11:04 AM
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Last month Heather joined volunteers at Torridon NNR to remove invasive western red cedar. After lunch together, we gathered natural materials on a walk round the village and spent the afternoon with Sophie from Our Rainforest Futures making cyanotype and relief prints 🌿
#ScotlandsRainforest
Volunteers standing in a line at the edge of a pine woodland with a grassy hill and mountain behind, smiling and holding pruning tools, saplings and gloves after a conservation work session. Volunteers planting and tending young conifer saplings in a grassy, fern-filled woodland clearing beneath a cloudy sky, adults using tools and a child helping.
September 7, 2026 at 2:08 PM
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🚴 If you need a bicycle to help you get to work, interviews or training, we can help. Our reCycle scheme provides a free refurbished bike, helmet, lock and lights. Please share with anyone who might benefit. [email protected]
Free bicycle repairs and servicing for people who need a bike to access employment, interviews or training, showing the reCycle community bicycle scheme logo, icons, a QR code and contact instructions.
September 4, 2026 at 2:08 PM
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MAKI Pups Outdoor Nursery is recruiting a Practitioner or Senior Practitioner in Lochgilphead.
All levels welcome.
Apply by Mon 14 Sept: buff.ly/vg4QPLd
#outdoorlearning #Argyll
Job posting graphic with text "We're Hiring!" over a sunlit park scene where an adult walks hand-in-hand with two young children across a grassy field dotted with yellow flowers, under a blue sky with a circular white logo.
September 2, 2026 at 12:34 PM
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Seeds, Stories, Coille-Uisge 🌰 Join us for a guided seed collecting walk at Ardfern, with forest folklore, Gaelic plantlore & foraged treats.

📅 Fri 4 Sept, 2-5pm
📍 Ardfern Village Store
Free, book below 👇
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#ScotlandsRainforest
September 1, 2026 at 8:53 AM
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Our ABCAN newsletter for August is out now! This month we're looking at sustainable food across Argyll and Bute, foraging, regenerative farming, cutting food waste and more.

Read it here: buff.ly/xV5L9bY

#Argyll #ABPlacetobe
August 17, 2026 at 11:34 AM
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Rain or shine, we've been out at the rural shows this August! On Saturday 8 August, Jenni Minto MSP called in to our stand at Mid Argyll Show for a chat about our habitat and community work. Thanks to everyone who came by. #Argyll #argyllrainforest #peatlandrestoration
August 14, 2026 at 8:36 AM
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Brilliant news! We've been awarded £50,796 by the Drax Foundation to support our rainforest work in Argyll 🌿 Funding goes towards our Rainforest Squad, woodland team, Rainforest Hub, tree nursery, community engagement, and volunteering.

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#ScotlandsRainforest
August 11, 2026 at 3:06 PM
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Great time at #KintyreShow and #MidArgyllShow last week! Thanks to everyone who stopped by for a chat about peatland regeneration and #ScotlandsRainforest.

Catch us next at Islay Show (13 Aug) and Oban Games (27 Aug).

#Argyll #PeatlandACTION
ACT stall at an agricultural show, with a marquee, display boards on peatlands and Scotland's rainforest, and a member of the team standing behind the table. Display boards showing ten years of ACT's impact, information on Scotland's rainforest and its threats, and case studies of peatland regeneration in Argyll, illustrated with field photos Table display with books on peatland biology and restoration, an FSC field guide to sphagnum mosses, jars of moss samples, and two trays of sphagnum moss specimens for visitors to examine. Table display of Alliance for Scotland's Rainforest leaflets, including guides to lichens and rainforest management, alongside resin-cast moss and lichen specimens and a nature journal open to an August page
August 10, 2026 at 2:50 PM
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Have you been involved in our rainforest work in Argyll? We'd love to hear from you, volunteers, event attendees, landowners and partners all welcome. Takes 5 minutes, closes Friday 21 August 🌿
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📷 Stephen Carter
A group of people gather around an ancient moss-covered oak tree in Argyll's temperate rainforest, surrounded by lush green vegetation
August 6, 2026 at 10:15 AM
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Fancy winning a £2,000 luxury holiday (or cash alternative)? 🌴✨ Every ticket bought for the Argyll Community Lottery Super Draw supports our work here at ACT, nature, climate and community projects across Argyll.
Enter here 👉 bit.ly/4vRCAia
July 31, 2026 at 7:00 AM
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⏰ Closing soon! ABCAN Seed Fund grants of £50–£1,000 for community-led climate action across Argyll and Bute. Apply by 2 August.

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#Argyllandbute #climateaction
Collage of hand-painted cardboard climate pledge signs outside the Snowdrop Centre, Mid Argyll, reading messages like 'I will grow plants for community plant share', 'Each day I will do an act of kindness for the planet' and 'Find out your footprint'. Overlaid text reads: ABCAN Seed Fund, empowering local climate action. Grants of between £50 and £1,000 to support community-led climate action projects across Argyll and Bute. Apply by 2 August 2026, bit.ly/ABCANClimateFund. Includes Argyll & Bute Climate Action Network, Net Zero Scotland and Let's Do Net Zero logos
July 27, 2026 at 8:00 AM
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Happy Bog Day! Celebrating the brilliance of bogs 🌿 Argyll's peatlands store carbon, clean water, slow flooding and shelter specialist wildlife. Here's why they matter #InternationalBogDay #PeatlandACTION #peatlandsmatter
July 26, 2026 at 8:00 AM
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Our Peatland Action team spent three days on Jura last week, walking the site to finalise our restoration plans. A break in the weather let us fly the drone over gully and micro erosion areas we're aiming to restore. 🌿

#PeatlandACTION #Argyll #Jura
Aerial view of blanket bog moorland with pools and channels of water. Two people in high-visibility orange and yellow jackets stand beside a tracked all-terrain vehicle, with a drone landing marker and equipment case on the ground nearby. Close-up aerial view of eroded peatland showing a network of dark peat hags and vegetated hummocks surrounding pools of standing water, with a narrow stream channel running through open moorland at the edges.
July 22, 2026 at 4:00 PM
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Still time to apply! We're looking for chainsaw operatives to join our Rainforest Squad across sites in Argyll & Bute. £25K-£29K p/a, 35 hrs/wk. Closes 12 noon, Friday 24th July.
Full details: buff.ly/5z3ePfm
#ScotlandsRainforest #Argyll
Graphic reading 'ACT Rainforest Squad Operative – Argyll & Bute, Closing Soon! Apply by Friday 24th July 2026' over a photo of Rainforest Squad operatives in high-vis clearing rhododendron beneath mossy oak woodland.
July 20, 2026 at 1:06 PM
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Earlier this month, Heather was out with volunteers from JPMorgan and Scottish Canals, clearing Himalayan Balsam from the carpark around Crinan Wood. Tackling invasive species helps protect our rainforest habitats. Thank you to everyone who got stuck in
#ScotlandsRainforest #argyllrainforest
A group of volunteers in yellow hi-vis vests hold up pulled Himalayan Balsam plants beside a pile of cleared vegetation, with boats moored in the canal basin behind them. Two volunteers in workwear clearing Himalayan Balsam from dense undergrowth, with foxgloves and cow parsley growing alongside a woodland burn. A large pile of pulled Himalayan Balsam stems and leaves on the ground beside a woodland edge.
July 16, 2026 at 8:00 AM
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Heather was out at Waterfall Wood in Oban earlier this month for a community litter pick, filmed for BBC's Stacey Dooley Cleans Up! The day also marked the official opening of the Waterfall Wood Rainforest Trail. Thank you to everyone who joined in!
#ScotlandsRainforest
Three women smiling for a photo outdoors, including Stacey Dooley, wearing ACT lanyards. A group of volunteers and a film crew, including a boom microphone operator, working together beneath trees at Waterfall Wood. A close-up of a carved wooden waymarker post reading "Fàilte" (Gaelic for welcome), with volunteers planting saplings in the background.
July 14, 2026 at 8:01 AM
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What's food really like where you live? NHS Highland is developing a Good Food Nation Plan for the Highlands and Islands, and ABCAN is supporting this work as a partner. Whether town, village or rural, your voice matters. Survey (5-7 mins): buff.ly/nw4X1NV
July 11, 2026 at 8:36 AM
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Our July ABCAN newsletter is out now 🌊 This month's theme is marine life, with spotlights on Kyles Coastal Community, Seawilding, Holy Loch Nature Reserve and the Argyll Hope Spot. Did you know Argyll has more coastline than the whole of France?
Read it here: buff.ly/mMSrIyS
A snorkeller underwater holding a clump of seagrass, with another snorkeller visible in the background
July 10, 2026 at 8:36 AM
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Congratulations to Jamie Joyce, our Climate Manager, now certified as a Carbon Literacy Consultant, the highest trainer status in the @carbonliteracy.bsky.social network. One of just 12 trainers globally to hold this status 🌍
Read more: buff.ly/R9QwnsT
#CarbonLiteracy #ABplacetobe
Jamie Joyce smiles at the camera holding a wooden Carbon Literate Organisation award, standing in front of the ACT sign at the Argyll Countryside Trust office. The Carbon Literacy Project Certified Consultant badge is overlaid in the bottom left corner.
July 2, 2026 at 3:27 PM
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Our June newsletter is out now! Catch up on the latest from ACT: ABCAN Seed Fund, new team members, peatland recovery work, new blogs on Scotland's Rainforest, MAKI Pups Summer Holiday Club and more.
Read it here: buff.ly/fLTI8Li
June 29, 2026 at 2:08 PM
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Invasive non-native species are one of the biggest threats to Scotland's habitats, including Argyll's temperate rainforest 🌿
Small actions make a difference. Check Clean Dry, stick to paths, and record what you spot.
#InvasiveSpeciesWeek #INNSWeek #ScotlandsRainforest
Members of the rainforest squad in high-visibility gear and safety helmets work to remove rhododendron ponticum at Glenan Wood, Argyll. Moss-covered oak trees and bluebells are visible in the foreground, with dense rhododendron thicket behind.
June 24, 2026 at 11:33 AM