WE NEED YOUR HELP... By making a “Plant KnoydarTrees” donation you will be helping us to plant and look after new woodlands on community owned land in Knoydart as part of our long term vision to link up the woodland habitat across the peninsula from Loch Nevis to Loch Hourn. Your donation will not only have a positive impact on our wee peninsula but will also help to address global climate change.
We are aiming to plant around 180,000 trees a year to do our bit to address the climate and biodiversity crises. We are working with the Knoydart Foundation on the Black Hills Regeneration Project to restore of a wide range of habitats on a landscape scale. Over the next couple of years we will be planting new woodlands at Doire Fada, between Scottas and Sandaig, and at Samadalan. These new woodlands mark the first new planting without individual deer fences and rely on the perimeter fence out Glen Guiserein, this means deer management costs will be high to make sure the trees will grow and the habitat recovers. Additionally, our policy is to plant more trees than usually required to give the woodland the best chance. Your donation will help us make these woodlands thrive. Each £15 donation helps to cover the cost of buying, planting and looking after one tree until it is strong enough to fend for itself in its challenging growing environment here on the North West coast of Scotland...and there’s a lot more to this than plonking a tree in the ground! There’s building a fence to stop the trees getting eaten by deer, sheep or goats, preparing the ground by creating mounds to help with drainage and weeds, ordering the right trees for the soil and getting them here, planting the trees, putting vole guards on the tastiest ones so the voles don’t munch them, weeding areas that are thick with bracken so the wee trees get enough light, looking after the fence and taking it down again once the woodland is resilient enough to cope with whatever Knoydart throws at it! As a thank you for your donation you will receive a "Plant KnoydarTrees" e-certificate and an annual update (with lots of photos) of how the new woodlands are getting on. If your donation is a gift we will include a personalised message for the lucky recipient. |
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THANK YOU for helping us to Plant KnoydarTrees!
TECHNICALITIES
To make the most of your donation the new woodlands are planted and looked after by the KFT team.
If you are in Knoydart we would love you to visit our new woodland sites - please note to preserve the natural landscape we do not label individual trees or put up plaques.
To make the most of your donation the new woodlands are planted and looked after by the KFT team.
If you are in Knoydart we would love you to visit our new woodland sites - please note to preserve the natural landscape we do not label individual trees or put up plaques.