Despite the rain, we had an amazing trip last week to the Black Wood of Rannoch as part of our new project called Forest Bound.
We took members of the Syrian, Polish, South Asian, Persian and Chinese communities for the walk.
‘Forest Bound’ is a public engagement project funded by Natural Environment Research Council and working in collaboration between UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology and ELREC aiming to engage BAME groups in Edinburgh and the Lothians with the changes happening in forests landscapes.
We aim to do this by discussing with participants the values placed on forests, their experiences of nature, and how people connect to the outdoors. Activities will consist in nature outings to sites reachable from Edinburgh.
We want to explore people’s relationship to the landscape (specifically forests), how their experiences of nature are determined by different factors, and the extent of their knowledge about local forests.
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