COP26: NatureScot's spokespeople and filming locations

Topic

Spokesperson

Usual location (additional languages)

Climate change and COP26

Dr Debbie Bassett, NatureScot lead, Climate Change and COP

Edinburgh

Climate and nature

Professor Des Thompson, Principal Adviser on Science and Biodiversity

Dr Clive Mitchell, Outcome Manager - People and Nature

Cecile Smith, Land Use Policy Officer

Edinburgh

Perth

Edinburgh (French speaker)

Species decline

Dr Debbie Bassett, NatureScot lead, Climate Change and COP

Professor Des Thompson, Principal Adviser on Science and Biodiversity

David O'Brien Biodiversity Evidence Manager

Edinburgh

Edinburgh

Inverness

Peatland Action

Peter Hutchinson, Peatland Action Programme Manager

Stephen Varwell, Peatland Action Project Manager - Communications and Planning

Perth

Isle of Skye

Green Infrastructure

Arthur Keller, NatureScot Head of Structural Funds

Glasgow

Rewilding

Professor Des Thompson, Principal Adviser on Science and Biodiversity

Dr Clive Mitchell, Outcome Manager - People and Nature

Edinburgh

Perth

Wildlife Management

Donald Fraser, Head of Wildlife Management

Inverness

Marine

Katie Gilham, Head of Marine Ecosystems

Cathy Tilbrook, Head of Sustainable Coasts and Seas

Inverness

Perthshire (Spanish speaker)

Coastal change

Dr Alistair Rennie, Dynamic Coast Project Manager and Geodiversity Advice Manager

Inverness

Woodlands

Woodlands officer Kate Holl

Woodlands officer Jeanette Hall

Edinburgh (Spanish speaker)

Inverness

Where

Project/Topic

Fernbrae Meadows, Glasgow (South Lanarkshire Council)

Green Infrastructure Fund - former golf course transformed into an urban park with wetland, allotments, paths, additional habitats. The park has been designed to help mitigate the impacts of climate change. The work included renaturalisation of a canalised burn to create a wetland (increasing biodiversity and making it a much more attractive space) as well as reducing flood risk on and off site (flooding was previously a significant issue offsite and even more so with impacts of climate change).

Malls Mire LNR, Glasgow (Clyde Gateway)

Green Infrastructure Fund - , Transforming 15 hectares of land into a mixed use park, wetland, enhanced and improved nature reserve, woodland and sustainable transport routes connecting through the area.

Garnock Connections (RSPB Scotland)

Green Infrastructure Community Engagement Fund project involving community dune restoration and woodland creation to address urban flooding, habitat creation for biodiversity (wetland scrapes, wildflowers), significant citizen science through internet-based volunteering hub/wildlife data monitoring system/wildlife recording training/wildlife recording equipment hires, improved access and better connected Green Infrastructure for improved health & well-being, capturing local stories of local places and mapping these into heritage trails. We funded one project that is part of a wider suite of Garnock Connections projects.

Claypits LNR project, Glasgow

AND/OR

Sighthill Transformation Regeneration Area

(These are part of the same Green Infrastructure grant, and cutting edge Smart Canal. Both have won awards.)

Green Infrastructure, transforming 10 ha derelict site into a local nature reserve and part of large scale storm water management.

Green Infrastructure, transforming 30ha derelict site into new neighbourhood, with active travel links to central Glasgow.

Halfway Community Park, Southside, Glasgow (Southside Housing Association)

GI, transform bland open space into a community park and ecologically diverse landscape

Blawhorn Moss NNR, Blackridge, West Lothian

Peatland restoration – NatureScot National Nature Reserve. This wilderness is a rare survivor of the raised and blanket bogs that once covered much of central Scotland.

Flanders Moss NNR, Stirling

Peatland restoration – NatureScot National Nature Reserve. Flanders Moss National Nature Reserve (NNR) is a wild and ancient landscape and one of the largest remaining intact raised bogs in Britain.

Loch Lomond NNR

NatureScot National Nature Reserve - Protecting and enhancing wetlands and woodlands on the shores of Loch Lomond.

Edinburgh Shore Line Project, South Queensferry to Joppa

Biodiversity Challenge Fund - habitat creation for pollinators, invertebrates and seabirds

Little France Park, Edinburgh

Biodiversity Challenge Fund - Woodland creation, grassland, pollinators, active travel network

Seven Lochs Wetlands Park, Glasgow/North Lanarkshire

Biodiversity Challenge Fund - Protecting and enhancing wetlands, habitat creation

Central Scotland B-lines  (East Dunbartonshire, Falkirk, Edinburgh and South Lanarkshire)

Biodiversity Challenge Fund - habitat creation and networks for pollinators

Come Forth for Wildlife (Falkirk/Stirling/Clacks) Bonnyfield LNR, Muiravonside Country Park

Biodiversity Challenge Fund -  habitat creation for amphibians

Greening Pinkston Basin, Glasgow

Biodiversity Challenge Fund - created 250m2 of floating wetland ecosystem.

Wild Blane Water project, Loch Lomond

Biodiversity Challenge Fund - a range of in stream, banking and fencing works along with INNS to address very current issues with diffuse pollution and a limited riparian strip.