1,109 species found in West Cowal 🌿 Our citizen science project is on the BBC today the first survey of the area in 50 years. Full piece on BBC Scotland News at 7pm & BBC Radio Scotland this afternoon. Big thanks to Ian, Heather, Ben Mitchell and the squad! Read more: buff.ly/XKuXoHb

Mud kitchens, bug hunts, and walled garden adventures 🌿 Celebrating #OutdoorClassroomDay with MAKI Pups, our outdoor nursery at Kilmory Walled Gardens, Lochgilphead. #MAKIPups #EarlyYears

Free certified carbon literacy training for Argyll & Bute - 17th & 24th June online 🌿 Covering climate science, resilience, the just transition & more. Earn your Carbon Literacy Certificate! @carbonliteracy.bsky.social Book here: bit.ly/4diexmE

Two days left to apply! Our MAKI Pups Outdoor Nursery Practitioner role closes 21 May. 🌿

May is #LymeDiseaseAwarenessMonth. Ticks are active across Argyll right now. If you're spending time outdoors, it's worth knowing what to look for and how to remove a tick safely. Great advice here from @publichealthscot.bsky.social👇 #BeTickAware

Our ABCAN May newsletter is out 🌼 Nature & Biodiversity is the theme, with spotlights on community woodland and nature learning across Argyll & Bute, plus events and resources for World Biodiversity Day on 22nd May. Read it here: buff.ly/eQXCZ1P

We're hiring! Join the MAKI Pups team as an Outdoor Nursery Practitioner at Kilmory Walled Gardens, Lochgilphead 🌿 Love children and the outdoors? Closes 21 May. Full details and application form: buff.ly/GdrDwqu

Our Peatland Team, Lucy and Clare, have been out on Jura this week! HIA surveys help us understand how grazing pressure is affecting the land, so we can plan patland regeneration in the right places. Brilliant work, brilliant sunshine ☀️🌿 #PeatlandACTION

Busy week at our tree nursery! 🌱 Alder seedlings, oak seedlings and aspen root cuttings all pushing through. Clare and Lucy helped get the third bench up too. Oh, and we had a very special visitor... 🐿️ #ScotlandsRainforest #RedSquirrel #ArgyllWildlife 📷 Heather Morrison / ACT

1,100+ species recorded across West Cowal’s rainforest since 2024, thanks to a growing community of volunteers. Sharing our Rainforest Manager Ian's @inaturalist journal for #EarthDay 👇 buff.ly/CC4JDLp 📷 Ben Mitchell @asrainforest.bsky.social #ScotalndsRainforest

Last chance ⏰ We’re recruiting for three roles at ACT: 🌿 Forester 🌱 Tree Nursery Assistant 🚲 reCycle Trainee 📅 Applications close Monday 👉 Find out more and apply: buff.ly/6tWMmg4 Know someone who might be a great fit? Please share or tag them below 👇

A jam-packed few days at our MAKI Pups Easter Holiday Club 🌸 22 children joined us for campfire cooking, clay faces, bug hotels, scavenger hunts and more. So nice to see familiar faces and welcome new ones too 😊 Find out more about MAKI Pups: buff.ly/GlJ0O8k

One week to go ⏳ We’re recruiting for three roles at ACT: 🌿 Forester 🌱 Tree Nursery Assistant 🚲 reCycle Trainee 📅 Closing date: 20 April 👉https://www.act-now.org.uk/careers

Our April ABCAN newsletter is live 🌱 This month we’re focusing on Repair, Re-use, Recycle 🛠 Find local projects, events, funding and a reCycle Trainee opportunity with ACT 🚲 Take a look 👇 buff.ly/68x02oJ

We’re growing our team 🌱 Three roles now open at ACT: 🌿 ACT Forester 🌱 Tree Nursery & Rainforest Hub Assistant 🚲 reCycle Trainee Technician Work across habitat regeneration, woodland management and community bicycle projects in Argyll. 📅 Closing date: 20 April 👉 buff.ly/LxWCN2N

Final day of our Cowal Learning Exchange 🌿 Land regeneration and local resilience 🌱 ColGlen Growers 🌳 Kilfinan woodland crofts A great way to round off the exchange, with lots to bring into our work. 👀 More to come soon! 📷 Roxanne Hunt and Jo Wheeler / ACT

Day 2 of our Cowal Learning Exchange in Dunoon 🌿 🌱 Grow Food Grow Dunoon 🚶 Active travel with Dunoon on the Move 🛍️ The Pop Shop 🌳 Benmore Botanic Garden 💬 Poverty Alliance workshop Great to hear from so many local projects. Another valuable day, with lots of ideas, conversations and connections

We’ve kicked off our Cowal Learning Exchange in Argyll 🌿 Day 1 in West Cowal included: 🌳 Rainforest walk exploring Biodiversity Net Gain 🦌 Community insights from Friends of Glenan Wood 🔥 Campfire lunch at Glenan Wood 🌱 Tree planting at Caladh A great start to the trip!

Today is International Day of Forests 🌳 This year’s theme is forests and economies. In Argyll, rainforest restoration supports jobs, skills and local communities. Find out about our work 👇 buff.ly/ISYwm7F #ForestDay #ScotlandsRainforest

Thanks to everyone who joined us at Glenan Wood to collect Aspen root cuttings. Great to spend the day in the rainforest and learn together. Cuttings are now back at our Lochgilphead nursery 🌱 Get involved: buff.ly/S9Hf9t4 Supported by The National Lottery Heritage Fund 📷 Heather Morrison

A big thank you to the Mid-Argyll team from Balfour Beatty who joined Heather this week to help pot up acorns. 5 volunteers spent just over 5 hours lifting acorns from stratification beds and potting them on. Total potted: 2,528 A great start for the next generation of oak trees. 📷 Heather Morrison

🌿 Aspen propagation at Glenan Wood 🌿 Join us this Friday (13 March) to learn how Aspen root cuttings are collected and grown. 🕙 10–2pm 📍 Glenan Wood Free event. Join for part or all of the day. Book here: buff.ly/Qsvod1I Supported by The National Lottery Heritage Fund.

Over winter our peatland team has been working with landowners and contractors to restore around 450ha of peatland across two Argyll sites. Work includes restoring erosion features, blocking drains and re-profiling peat banks. Find out more here: buff.ly/ePQI6cw 📷 Lucy Smith and Clare Trinder / ACT

Our March newsletter is out now! Inside: a world first for Cardross Primary School, five years of MAKI Pups, peatland and rainforest restoration updates, and ways to get involved. Take a look 👇 buff.ly/bXmTgYw

🌿 Thanks to everyone who joined us at Ferry Wood, Ardpatrick this week to collect Aspen root cuttings. These are now being processed at our Native Tree Nursery in Lochgilphead. Another chance to get involved on 13 March at Glenan Wood: buff.ly/JfgeErX #ScotlandsRainforest

Back to North Knapdale with Philippa, our Habitats Manager 🌿 This steep site was cleared of Rhododendron ponticum last June. Only light regrowth so far and good potential for native ground flora to return as light reaches the woodland floor. Restoration takes follow-up. #ScotlandsRainforest

ABCAN connects communities across Argyll and Bute who are taking practical climate action 🌿 Our first monthly newsletter is out now. We’re starting a new themed approach, beginning with growing 🌱 Take a look: bit.ly/4aYvQGN

There are still some spaces available for our Aspen root cutting and propagation day next Tuesday 3rd March in Ardpatrick and Lochgilphead. Free to attend! 🌿 Sign up here: forms.office.com/e/muh93Bwhhv

325 hectares of blanket bog restored at Caladh, Tighnabruich 🌿 Our latest blog shares reflections from a recent site open day and explains how historic drains have been blocked to slow water movement and support long-term peatland recovery. Read more: buff.ly/PNAh7cr 📷 Clare Trinder / ACT

🌍 World first for Cardross Primary School Congratulations to the whole school community on becoming the first Primary School in the world to achieve Carbon Literate Educator status! Delighted to support this milestone through ABCAN. Read more here: buff.ly/TPhFc8d #CarbonLiteracy #ArgyllAndBute

🌿 Aspen propagation day 🌿 Join for part or all of the day. Lift shares available. Free event. Woodland terrain so good mobility needed. Supported by The National Lottery Heritage Fund. Sign up: buff.ly/uDH4mLh #ScotlandsRainforest

North Knapdale site visit this week 🌿 A new potential volunteer site (with 'RhodoDog'!), contractor progress on track, and the Rainforest Squad finishing a section of work in Carsaig. Encouraging to see restoration happening at landscape scale across this area. #ScotlandsRainforest

It’s #WorldWetlandsDay 🌍 Wetlands store water in dry weather, absorb heavy rain and help filter pollution. They support wildlife and communities. Our team are at Caladh today for a demonstration day. Lucy’s on a peat bund, re-wetting a once-eroding gully. More soon!

🎊 Don’t miss your chance to win £1,000 in this weekend’s Super Draw 🎊 By taking part, you’re supporting ACT’s work across Argyll, from restoring rainforest to peatland projects and outdoor learning 💚 A great prize and a great cause. Get your tickets: bit.ly/4qafykP

Today is #RedSquirrelAppreciationDay! We’re delighted that this coincides with us collecting over A QUARTER OF A MILLION squirrel records. Read more about this fantastic achievement here: scottishsquirrels.org.uk/2026/01/21/n... 📷 Raymond Leinster

Day in the life of our rainforest team in Tayvallich. This is what thick Rhododendron ponticum looks like on the ground, and the scale our team are up against in Knapdale. Link to find out more in the comments. #ScotlandsRainforest #InvasiveSpecies

If you’re tackling Rhododendron ponticum or Himalayan balsam, this looks really useful. Practical community tips from Scottish Wildlife Trust. 👇

Want to learn more about lichens in 2026 (and why wouldn't you??) Scottish Lichens are running a series of distance learning courses. The first is lichens on trees

The team from Highland Access are making great progress controlling Rhododendron on steep, rope-access sites. They’ve been working since December, using techniques like stem injection with promising results. Supported by the Scottish Government’s #NatureRestorationFund, managed by NatureScot

Two exciting firsts as we head into 2026 🎉 Certificates are back from @carbonliteracy.bsky.social for our new Carbon Literacy, Climate Adaptation and Building Resilience training, plus Carbon Literacy for School Staff delivered across Argyll and Bute 🙌 Interested in training? Comment or DM.

A big thank you for supporting ACT this year. We hope you get some time to rest, head outdoors and enjoy a bit of nature over the festive break. 📷 Stephen Carter, looking towards Crinan Ferry from Islandadd Bridge

Hermitage Primary took part in Sustainable Christmas as part of an ABCAN project led by Lindsey. Pupils made Christmas tree decorations with no glue or sellotape, so they can be taken apart and recycled. A great way to chat about cutting waste ❤️ 💚 📷 Lindsey Young

Thank you to the 30+ people who gathered at Kilmory from across the west of Scotland to share experiences of tackling Rhododendron ponticum in #ScotlandsRainforest, with great discussion on volunteering, recovery after clearance and next steps. Supported by the National Lottery Heritage Fund.

🌿 Qualified chainsaw operator? Sub contractor role in Argyll working in a team to restore native biodiversity at one of Scotland’s finest rainforest sites. Apply: buff.ly/TET2YkF #ScotlandsRainforest

🎉 You did it! £6,800 raised with the @biggive.bsky.social #ChristmasChallenge Your generosity helps protect #ScotlandsRainforest and support outdoor learning and wellbeing in Argyll. A huge thank you to everyone who donated or shared the campaign We’re very grateful 💚

💚 Last chance to double your impact Final hours of the @biggive.bsky.social #ChristmasChallenge Your support helps protect #ScotlandsRainforest and creates more chances for people in Argyll to connect in nature. Donations doubled until 12pm today 👉 buff.ly/ftDinPj

There’re still a few spaces left for our Rhododendron and the Rainforest session this Thursday at Kilmory. Fancy joining us to learn more about caring for #ScotlandsRainforest and how you can help? Book today 👇 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/rhododendr...

🌟Almost there 🌟 We’re in the last stretch of the @biggive.bsky.social #ChristmasChallenge Every donation before midday tomorrow is doubled 💚 Help protect Argyll’s rainforest and support more people to get outdoors, learn and build confidence. 👉 buff.ly/6MLczSU #ScotlandsRainforest

💚 Nature helps us feel better Support more community wellbeing outdoors in Argyll 🌿 🕒 Donations doubled until midday on Tuesday 9 Dec 👉 buff.ly/6MLczSU #ChristmasChallenge #DoubleYourDonation

Stick dens, mud pies and big imaginations 🌿 Outdoor learning helps children explore the world, grow their confidence and find joy in nature. 💚Donations doubled until 9 Dec thanks to @biggive.bsky.social #ChristmasChallenge helping more children learn outside 👉 buff.ly/ftDinPj