Thirteen projects were awarded more than £5 million through Scotland’s Nature Restoration Fund, supporting work on habitats, species and climate resilience.
Scotland’s Nature Restoration Fund has awarded more than £5 million to thirteen projects in its latest round, adding to a programme that has already backed a large spread of work across the country. NatureScot describes the fund as supporting projects that restore biodiversity, strengthen resilience to climate change and improve local wellbeing.
The supported work covers many kinds of restoration, because Scotland’s nature problems are not all the same. Some projects focus on rivers, others on meadows, wetlands, woodlands, coasts or species recovery. The common thread is practical repair rather than only awareness-raising.
Since the fund began in 2021, it has supported hundreds of projects, from local action to larger landscape work. That long-term pattern is important because restoration cannot be delivered by one dramatic announcement. It needs repeated funding rounds, skilled organisations and local communities willing to keep going.
The most useful thing about programmes like this is that they let small and medium-sized projects move from hope into delivery. A river bend, a wet field, a meadow or a woodland edge can all become better habitat when the right people have the money to do the physical work.
Source: NatureScot