Nevis Nature Network

This is Nevis Landscape Partnerships most ambitious nature restoration project yet. We are working in partnership with the largest landowners in the Nevis Landscape Partnership management area: JAHAMA Highland Estate, John Muir Trust, Glen Nevis Estate and Forestry and Land Scotland.

Spanning 22,000 acres, the Nevis Nature Network project area covers a vast array of native habitats, from ancient riparian woodland along the River Nevis, to fragments of Caledonian forest and Scottish Rainforest, up to rare montane scrub on mountain cliffs. It also includes land with both European and Scottish habitat designations: Ben Nevis Special Area of Conservation and Ben Nevis Special Site of Scientific Interest. This iconic landscape attracts about half a million visitors every year with well over one hundred thousand of those summiting Ben Nevis.

Our shared vision is:

To restore a rich mosaic of woodland habitats, across Ben Nevis and Glen Nevis, to secure the future of our rare and vulnerable local species and to share wild places with communities near and far.

We have four priority aims:

We have secured full funding for a 9-month development phase project from: the Scottish Government’s Nature Restoration Fund (managed by NatureScot), Rewilding Britain’s Rewilding Innovation Fund, The Woodland Trust, Forestry and Land Scotland, JAHAMA Highland Estate, Glen Nevis Estate and Friends of Nevis. Thank you so much to everyone involved. We were overwhelmed by the support that we received to get this project up and running.

During this development phase we will:

Investigate opportunities to collaboratively address our biggest ecological challenges.

To achieve this we are engaging with area specialists to:

• Investigate the nature restoration potential
• Cost, map and rank opportunities for action
• Provide advice and support to NLP and the land management decision makers

The outputs from this development phase will include:

• A landscape-scale woodland restoration feasibility study
• A montane scrub restoration feasibility study
• Footpath restoration on designated sites feasibility study
• Invasive non-native species erradication feasibility study
• A list of collaborative actions that the partners have commited to, in order to deliver our project aim

This project is being managed by ecologist Ellie Corsie. Any questions or ideas about this exciting project, please email: info@nevislandscape.co.uk