{"id":15,"date":"2024-03-04T20:11:02","date_gmt":"2024-03-04T20:11:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bamff.land\/braesofalyth\/?page_id=15"},"modified":"2024-03-28T18:50:46","modified_gmt":"2024-03-28T18:50:46","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/bamff.land\/braesofalyth\/about\/","title":{"rendered":"About the Project"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Braes of Alyth: Wild Cores and Corridors<\/strong>

– was created and is led by Bamff Wildland<\/a>,
a leading nature restoration<\/strong> project in Perthshire.<\/p>\n\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n

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The boundary of the project is defined by the catchments of the (upper) Alyth and Auchrannie Burns, for whom Bamff is a modest watershed. This project enables Bamff Wildland to draw on years of nature restoration experience, supporting neighbours to carry out restoration work collaboratively, in a way designed to maximise connectivity across the area.<\/p>\n\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n

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BoA began in the winter of 2022, with a six month Nature Restoration Fund<\/a> development grant. This enabled the project to commission a comprehensive River Habitat Survey of all of the parts of the two catchments where landowners had agreed to participate, and relevant surveys of woodlands and other habitats. <\/p>\n\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

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The Cores and Corridors<\/strong> model is a spatial proposal for how to create landscape scale nature restoration within an area where human land uses, such as farming and forestry, are an important part of the landscape. Larger areas, devoted to nature, are \u2018cores<\/em>\u2019, and these can be connected by nature corridors, in order that cores don\u2019t become isolated. The most obvious and vital points of connection are waterways. <\/p>\n\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

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Waterway restoration: <\/p>\n\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n

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