A very happy new years to all our TCV volunteers, partners and supporters!
We kicked off 2018 with a fantastic day out at Flanders Moss National Nature Reserve! Accompanied by the fantastic Scottish Natural Heritage ...
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Path Building in Plean: Connecting Places and People
As TCV's "American intern" this summer I'm told Scotland is lulling me into a false sense of security with the recent heatwave. But we were all grateful for sunny skies on Tuesday, July 18th as we worked on our tans and a new ...
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TCV Stirling at 7 Lochs
The Stirling mid-week volunteer group have been busy on a new woodland management project to make a series of natural locations more accessible to the public, and to promote the presence and development of a greater variety ...
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Five things our volunteers have done so far….
Bracken bashing
Why control bracken? This rapidly growing fern provides a great habitat for many birds and insects but it will invade heather and other grassland areas that are of conservation interest. TCV Stirling ...
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Gowan Hill Bioblitz
Today we went up Gowan Hill beside Stirling Castle and did a bioblitz. We took a note of all the plant and wildlife species that we could see. There were five species of tree: willow, birch, hawthorn, elder and poplar. ...
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