News Archives - Bioregioning Tayside

16 April 202416 April 2024

Strengthening & Developing Community-Led Food Growing In Tayside – Recipes For Action

This project, which has resulted in a set of new ‘recipes for action’, investigated how community-led food growing can be strengthened and developed in Tayside. Empowering this very important part of Tayside’s food system was one of the many recommendations made at the conference ‘Feeding Tayside Through The Climate Crisis’, which took place in Dundee…

30 July 20235 September 2023

Riverwoods Investment Readiness Pioneers Award to new River Ericht Catchment Restoration Initiative

The new River Ericht Catchment Restoration Initiative has been confirmed as the second project[1] in Scotland to receive a Riverwoods Investment Readiness Pioneers award. The River Ericht, one of the most important spawning grounds for Atlantic salmon in Europe, is in crisis. Extreme weather caused by climate change, historic and current land management practices and…

1 May 20234 June 2023

Feeding Tayside Through The Climate Crisis: Launch Conference & Future Plans

On March 24th, at Discovery Point in Dundee, a group of around 100 people from across Tayside and beyond, met to discuss the crucial issue of how we feed our communities through the climate crisis. Participants were drawn from across the breadth of the sector, including senior figures in the food and drink industry, politicians,... View More

22 October 20229 November 2022

Bioregioning Tayside Learning Journey 2022: Can Tayside Become A Climate Action Sweet Spot?

We completed our 2022 Learning Journey ‘Change The Frame, Change The Story’ with a day co-hosted with Sustainable Kirriemuir and Dundee’s Botanic Gardens and a hugely ambitious question: Can Tayside Become A Climate Action Sweet Spot? Honey Bee on Quince, photo wikimedia commons Inspired by the work of Dr Avit Bhowmik, Assistant Professor of Risk... View More

16 October 202224 October 2022

Bioregioning Tayside Learning Journey 2022: What Will Be On My Plate In 2042?

Our first Learning Journey event focused on food, where we took a day long journey to find out new answers to the question ‘What will Be On My Plate in 2042?’. We began our day at the Upper Dysart Farm, a family farm specialising in potato growing on the east coast of Angus, then travelled... View More

4 October 202229 November 2022

Bioregioning Tayside Learning Journey 2022: What Will I Do When The Waters Rise?

Our second Learning Journey event focused on flooding, which, in the Tayside Bioregion is becoming more frequent as a result of the extreme weather caused by global heating and having serious impacts on both human and biotic communities . We chose to focus on the small town of Alyth in eastern Perthshire as an exemplar... View More

30 September 202226 October 2022

Bioregioning Tayside Learning Journey 2022: Can Tourism Help Tayside #RaceToZero?

Our third Learning Journey event focused on tourism, which in common with all of Scotland and many other parts of the world plays a key role in the economy of Tayside. Tourism is evolving fast. COVID-19, the climate and biodiversity crises and new major geopolitical instability is changing how people travel, where to and why;... View More

28 September 202221 October 2022

Bioregioning Tayside Learning Journey 2022: How Can Participatory Science Bring New Solutions to Ecosystem Restoration?

Our fourth Learning Journey event focused on the role of Participatory Science in ecosystem restoration. Participatory Sciences, including Civic Science, Citizen Science and Community Science involve communities co-producing new knowledge about the places where they live and work. This community and participatory process, which can involve collecting place-based ecological and physical data alongside social and cultural information... View More

16 November 202118 November 2021

Films From Our First Meet Up in October 2021

We had our very first Meet Up in October 2021 with four amazing contributors from the USA, Austria, Sweden and Scotland. First up was Glenn Page from Sustainamatrix in Maine in the USA. Glenn has 30 years of experience building bioregional and ecosystem stewardship across the world. He led an amazing International Bioregional Learning Workshop that we joined... View More

8 April 202118 November 2021

Bioregioning in Tayside: Duncan Pepper, Fishing Guide

Across Tayside, there people who are already acting in bioregional ways to bring human and the biotic communities back into a healthy, balanced co-existence with each other. In this blog post, Bioregioning Tayside caught up with one of them, Angler and Ecologist Duncan Pepper, to find out more about his story. Can you tell us where... View More