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Affric Highlands Wins Nature and Climate Action Award for Landscape-scale Restoration

  • Submitted by: Ariane Burgess, Highlands and Islands, Scottish Green Party.
  • Date lodged: Friday, 21 November 2025
  • Motion type: Standard Motion
  • Motion reference: S6M-19861

That the Parliament congratulates Affric Highlands on winning the Nature and Climate Action Award at the Nature of Scotland Awards 2025; notes its ambitious 30-year vision to unite communities, landowners and businesses in a shared mission to restore habitats across more than 200,000 hectares of the central Highlands; recognises that the project aims to create a climate-resilient, regenerating landscape, rich in biodiversity and opportunity, where people, nature and livelihoods support one another to thrive; welcomes its collaborative, landscape-scale approach, including work to restore woodlands, peatlands and river catchments, support for nature-friendly land management and strengthening of local economies, and wishes all involved every success as they continue to deliver what it sees as long-term benefits for communities and nature in the Highlands.