Sunart Rainforest Project – A Greener Future for our Community.
We’re excited to share news of a major step forward in protecting and restoring one of our area’s greatest natural treasures – the Atlantic rainforest of Sunart.
Starting in April 2025, running through to March 2026, the Sunart Community Company is delivering the Sunart Rainforest Project—a year-long initiative focused on reviving our native temperate rainforest.
Funded by the Nature Restoration Fund (NatureScot), with match funding from The Woodland Trust, FLS, and Scottish Government RPID, the project will lay the foundations for long-term woodland recovery and resilience.
Spanning the area between Loch Sunart and Loch Shiel, the project brings together seventeen landowners committed to a shared vision of ecological restoration.
Activities will include developing a collaborative deer management plan, surveying biodiversity and invasive species, and exploring opportunities for woodland expansion.
We’re delighted to announce that a local project coordinator, Euan Palmer, has now been appointed to lead engagement with landowners and the wider community, and to help coordinate the delivery of the project on the ground.
They’ll also support the re-establishment of a local woodland owners’ group and help shape woodland management plans across the region.
This project is about much more than ecology—it’s about empowering our community, building local knowledge, and reconnecting people with the rainforest landscape we’re lucky to call home.
We’ll be sharing updates as things progress, and we hope you’ll get involved in this exciting journey to protect and restore the Sunart rainforest for generations to come.
Together, these two woodland initiatives (Longrigg Community Woodland and Sunart Rainforest Project) represent a major investment in Sunart’s natural heritage and our shared future.
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