Glenfalloch Nature Restoration
Investment project code: 6
Habitat – Carbon Sequestration - Shading – Community – Education
Glenfalloch might be called the source of Loch Lomond with the River Falloch flowing from a 24,000ac catchment on the hillsides near Crianlarich and running down through the Glen to the head the Loch. Glenfalloch is passionate about making the restoration of riparian habitat on what could be as much as 20 miles of burn and river the backbone of the long term nature restoration project it is embarking on.
Glenfalloch would collaborate with a range of public, charitable and community organisations to create a riparian habitat that delivered improved landscape scale ecosystems as well as community engagement and education opportunities. The improved habitat would provide contiguous climate and biodiversity crises fighting links from the banks of Loch Lomond to montane scrub high above the tree line. Thus providing new habitat for the huge range of species found on Glenfalloch and enabling species to move north and higher to adjust to climate change. Tree growth would contribute to the sequestration of carbon, fighting climate change, and provide shade to the watercourses preventing warming of the water thereby offering greater chances of survival to the young migratory fish and brown trout found in the river system. It is anticipated that the local community and local primary school will be involved from an early stage in order to ensure there is maximum benefit delivered to those living closest to the project area.
Proposed on behalf of: Glenfalloch
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Glenfalloch Riverwoods Potential Project Area
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Riverwoods-Proposal.pdf
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This is an excellent opportunity so see practical and important biodiversity conservation delivery at a landscape scale, (re)connecting woodland habitats from the south to north end of the Loch Lomond National Park. In a rapidly changing environment with the biodiversity crisis writ large, this is an exciting project that will create one of the longest woodland habitat corridors in Scotland, allowing woodland species to disperse and move as the climate changes.
This is a very valuable and important project, which will support biodiversity, habitat connectivity, carbon sequestration, community engagement and education. It will provide a key piece in a jigsaw of wider landscape scale nature restoration plans within and linking to Loch Lomond & The Trossachs National Park.
what proportion of the 23K acres and 20 miles of watercourses are on land-holdings who are participating partners in this application? How much of these landholdings are commercially owned as opposed to being in public hands?
Hi David, thanks for your comment. All of the suggested length and area is found on participating land. The project area is majority privately owned rather than public, although I think it would not be best described as commercial. We believe this means we can quickly deliver maximum connectivity benefit amongst others while engaging the local and wider community Hope that answers your queries.
This is, perhaps, a once in a generation opportunity to re-link an ancient wooded corridor that once existed and connected this very special ecological area of Britain. Where drove roads combined, mountains became lochs and a huge range of upland and lowland species merged, this valley has, for millennia, been the liminal zone between high hill and dripping rainforest. Contained within this Glen are so many habitats that, to echo Peter's note, this wooded landscape corridor, proposed and possible through this opportunity will enable the recolonisation and expansion of now scarcely existing fragments of some of our wildest landscape ecotypes. To set the stage of wider natural connectivity through the Falloch glen with this project is to enhance the story of people and nature working in harmony to buffer, move and adapt to the new world of an ever shifting climate and the challenges it is bringing to all the species who dwell in these ancient places.
Clarity, partnership and delivery the watchwords of joined up nature based solutions that this project clearly demonstrates.