Alliance for Scotland's Rainforest

Did you know..? 1. Scotland has rainforest 2. It's rare, there's only 30,000 hectares left! 3. It's under threat 4. It needs protection #ScotlandsRainforest 📷 Iain H Leach

Fantastic to see this on the news today. buff.ly/vMAncAw #ScotlandsRainforest

Did you know that mosses and liverworts don't produce flowers? Instead they have a complicated life-cycle with two stages. The green, leafy, spiky bit is called the gametophyte, and the reproductive bit is called the sporophyte. This one is from bank haircap. 📷️ Jenny Tweedie

If you're heading out into #ScotlandsRainforest this spring, find out what wildlife to look out for, from wood warblers, to rare lichens, to chequered skipper butterflies. buff.ly/I6UrW70

Join Nevis Landscape Partnership and the John Muir Trust for a guided tour of Scotland’s rainforest, part of the Fort William Mountain Festival. February 14, 10am-12pm, Glen Nevis.

More than 30 people gathered at ACT’s Kilmory Hub this December for 'Rhododendron and the Rainforest', an informative open day focused on supporting the recovery of Scotland’s rainforest. Find out more

Did you see the BBC Countryfile team visit the stunning woodlands around the Sound of Mull last year? If you missed out, or you'd just like to see it again, you've got one month left to watch buff.ly/ebvqVUg #ScotlandsRainforest

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

Happy New Year! Here's to another year of celebrating, protecting and restoring #ScotlandsRainforest.

Dr Oliver Moore is bonkers for bryophytes (well we could have told you that...) But he's also a National Park Nature Hero, sharing his knowledge and passion about the wildlife found in #ScotlandsRainforest to hundreds of people. Find out more: buff.ly/1McwPd7 @plantlifeuk.bsky.social

The Woodland Trust is looking for a Site Manager. This is a key role in the Scotland team, managing a diverse portfolio of sites across the Highlands centred around Glenurquhart and Southeast Sutherland (including #ScotlandsRainforest). For more info: buff.ly/yYJ50ph

Join Argyll Countryside Trust (ACT) and partners for an informative and engaging session exploring the challenges and opportunities of tackling Rhododendron ponticum within Scotland’s rainforest. Kilmory Woodland, 11 Dec from 10am. Find out more: buff.ly/LUu8v8z

Want to create a new woodland? Join the Integrating Trees Network for a free online event: "Woodland creation & management to maximise biodiversity: What needs to be considered?" 2 December 7pm. Find out more:

You'll normally see Prickly featherwort in #ScotlandsRainforest growing mixed up with other liverworts, filmy ferns and lichens, often on rocks or at the base of trees. It's pretty rare elsewhere, making our populations important. 📷 Stan Phillips

Have you ever visited Dunollie Wood in Oban? It might be at the heart of Scotland's busiest port town, but somehow it's managed to cling onto some very special wildlife #ScotlandsRainforest buff.ly/4Ebbjqv

Join the Integrating Trees Network for an online event: "Your farm's future: Trees an option and opportunity? Why and how they can benefit your business". This free event runs on 26 November at 7pm. Find out more buff.ly/yZZxloD

Is Ariundle Scotland's most magical woodland? The National thinks it is! I mean, it's got to be up there... buff.ly/KuiORHg 📷 Ben Andrew

If you missed the rainforest garden at Chelsea Flower Show this year, you can still see it at Bristol Zoo! buff.ly/LEnEup6

Join the Integrating Trees Network for an online Tea and Trees with Crofters event, 11 Nov, 6–7 pm. During this informal session, you can share your knowledge and experience, and chat with other crofters, Scottish Forestry and Woodland Trust staff. buff.ly/ehaa7QK 📷 Richard Faulks

It seems to be a fantastic year for acorns in #ScotlandsRainforest! Are these the oaks of the future?

Are wildfires a growing threat to Scotland's rainforest? In theory, these woods should be protected by the damp 'zone' where they grow. But damaged habitat, a warming climate and more droughts mean the risks could be getting higher. Find out more: buff.ly/sepQheh

#ScotlandsRainforest grows in a zone with high rainfall right through the year. But with Wildfire Warnings becoming more common in Scotland’s springs and summers, how much of a threat do fires pose to this already vulnerable habitat? buff.ly/zlUM1Fh 📷 Samuel Lindsay

Can you help remove invasive rhododendrons from #ScotlandsRainforest? @actinargyll.bsky.social is contracting for rope specialists to help tackle some of the most challenging sites. Is this role for you? buff.ly/iYWJKVp 📷 Caz Austen

Trees for Life and Woodland Trust Scotland are looking for volunteers to help collect native tree seeds! While most restoration work in #ScotlandsRainforest is through encouraging nature regeneration, sometimes people need to give the trees a helping hand. Find out more:

This is your last chance to apply for an amazing opportunity with National Trust for Scotland and Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh for a two-year role working on some of the finest lichen habitats in Scotland, including #ScotlandsRainforest! The closing date is tomorrow buff.ly/82AyPTd 📷 Laura Corbe

@asrainforest.bsky.social partners joined us in West Cowal this week🌿 We explored Ash & Hazel refugia, saw cattle grazing trials at Kyles of Bute, and shared ideas on tackling Rhododendron at scale. Showers, lichens & an Osprey rounded off an inspiring day in #ScotlandsRainforest! 📷 Ian Dow/ACT

Both Knapdale and Loch Arkaig have had the honour of being included in the first four Nature30 sites to be announced by NatureScot. This recognises areas that deliver positive, sustained, and long-term outcomes for biodiversity 👏 buff.ly/waKiLiD 📷 Jill Donnachie & Richard Thompson

Join the work to save #ScotlandsRainforest! Find out about latest the latest job opportunities here: buff.ly/7uvYC7H #jobs #vacancies #jobvacancies

Great video from Scottish Forestry 👇 buff.ly/jjV1frz #ScotlandsRainforest

There's not much still in bloom at this time of the year in #ScotlandsRainforest. But one flower to look out for is Devil's-bit scabious. The story of its name goes that the Devil, apparently upset at the flower's healing abilities, bit off its roots. 😈 📷 Jenny Tweedie

Event: Walking and talking trees. Discover how farmers Katharine and David Lowrie are transforming their farm to dramatically increase biodiversity by planting new native broadleaves on a third of their land. 9 Sep 2025 10AM-1PM, Tighnabruaich. buff.ly/QRNqbrS 📷 Niall Benvie

You can see fungi all-year-round in #ScotlandsRainforest, but autumn is a particularly good time to look out for different species. 📷 John MacPherson Laura Corbe

Fly agaric will be starting to appear in the birch woodlands of #ScotlandsRainforest, a sign that autumn isn't far away. These fabled fungi form symbiotic relationships with the trees around them, but they're toxic to humans. 📷 Ben Andrew

As the seasons change in #ScotlandsRainforest, there are lots of early signs of autumn to look out for, like the red berries on rowan trees. Did you know that rowans have a long association with magic in Scotland?? 🧙 Find out more: buff.ly/LSxMd7n 📷 Andy Hay

You might see filmy ferns growing in #ScotlandsRainforest. They're easy to mistake for moss or liverworts, but they're very very tiny ferns! The one you're most likely to see is Wilson's filmy fern, named for William Wilson, a 19th century botanist. 📷 John MacPherson

Event: Walking and talking trees. Discover how farmers Katharine and David Lowrie are transforming their farm to dramatically increase biodiversity by planting new native broadleaves on a third of their land. 9 Sep 2025 10AM-1PM, Tighnabruaich. buff.ly/QRNqbrS 📷 Niall Benvie

Help the Our Rainforest Futures project by filling in their short survey! buff.ly/YAQTW0e What you tell them will help shape a funding bid for 5 years of work across the rainforest zone, which will mobilise and equip people to get stuck in to saving #ScotlandsRainforest. 📷 John MacPherson

Great article by @theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Glasdrum Wood, on the edge of Loch Creran, is a remnant of #ScotlandsRainforest that's rich in woodland flowers, mosses, liverworts and lichens. This National Nature Reserve is also home to 20 species of butterfly! 📷 John MacPherson

Our blog has loads of great articles about #ScotlandsRainforest: from tick facts to photography, birch to bird cherries, and fascinating facts about the doctrine of signatures. Find out more:

"Lochaber nature restoration partnership, Loch Abar Mòr, will use volunteers to collect seeds before they are dispersed over burnt ground on Glenuig Estate. "

Looking to get involved in the work to save #ScotlandsRainforest? There's a great role available right now. Invitation to tender: Developing a Governance Body for a Fund for Scotland’s Rainforest. Find out more:

If you're visiting Scotland's rainforest zone this weekend, please take care! A wildfire warning is in place. Avoid open fires or barbecues, be careful with cigarettes and take your rubbish home. 🥵 🔥 🚒 🌳 #ScotlandsRainforest

Find out more about what @actinargyll.bsky.social have been up to in the last few weeks with their August update - including a visit to #ScotlandsRainforest by @jennimintomsp.bsky.social (check out those brollies!) buff.ly/vovGr4w

The magic of a Scottish rainforest. A wonderfully majestic old oak in Glenuig, on the northwest coast.

Goat willow is an awesome substrate for lichens characteristic of #ScotlandsRainforest. This 📷 features at least 8 species. We especially 💚 the octopus suckers (Gabura fascicularis)! 👏 to volunteer Laura for sharing images of #Dunollie Wood. More ➡️ buff.ly/fq6BpKu @asrainforest.bsky.social

If you like wandering #ScotlandsRainforest and diving regularly into the undergrowth to investigate interesting lichens or mosses, then you need to be tick-aware! Check out these ten tick tips. buff.ly/BLWeRr7

Hazel gloves is an odd-looking fungus that's a specialist of hazel trees in temperate rainforest. It doesn't parasitise the tree but instead grows on another fungus, called the glue crust fungus, which sticks branches together. 📷 Ben Mitchell & Jenny Tweedie #ScotlandsRainforest

There's still time to take part in the Big Butterfly Count! If you live in the rainforest zone, look out for species like the pearl-bordered fritillary 👇 buff.ly/4pAZzyX #ScotlandsRainforest 📷 Peter Eeles

Join @wtscotsocial.bsky.social for a walk at Gleann Shildeag on Saturday 16 August at 10.30am. #ScotlandsRainforest

The hazelwoods of #ScotlandsRainforest are ancient, special places, some of them stretching back 10,000 years. Today their unique habitat is home to incredible wildlife, including rare mosses, liverworts & lichens. This is Ballachuan buff.ly/1pmH1SD 📷 John MacPherson