OUR PROJECTS
We are delighted to announce that we have been awarded project funding from Forth2O to support a new ‘Shifting Baselines’ project. We are doing this in collaboration with Fife Coast and Countryside Trust.
The project is innovative in its integration of storytelling, citizen science and environmental history into a single, community-led framework. Rather than treating engagement, data collection and research as separate activities, this project combines them to create shared understanding, trust and momentum for action. This approach represents a step change from consultation-led models to genuine co-design with communities.
We are running a series of workshops and community activities covering community stories, fishing, birds, tourism, industry and lost words. Alongside this we are working with D’Arcy Thomson to review environmental data that already exists and consider how to visualise and share this in a more accessible way for local communities.
We’ll share outputs from these workshops and community activities as they happen, and then pull all of this together as we approach project completion in September.
We are currently running a series of workshops as part of our Forth2O funded story-telling project, Shifting Baselines, capturing community
Edinburgh Shoreline were delighted to receive funding from Forth2O for a story-telling project capturing community connection with the Firth of
We are delighted to announce that we have been awarded project funding from Forth2O to support a new ‘Shifting Baselines’
The significant lack of current data regarding changes in water temperature and water quality in the Firth of Forth has been limiting appropriate decision-making in marine conservation efforts. Over the next couple of years Edinburgh Shoreline will be helping address this by monitoring seawater temperature and basic water quality. We have just helped install temperature data loggers as part of an Atlantic-wide survey and are about to launch a campaign recruiting local beach and sea users to report unsavoury sightings and water-related health concerns. Opportunities to be involved
Building on this and our Blue Mussel Citizen Science survey, we will identify sites for trial blue mussels re-introductions where they can be more easily monitored and hopefully help to build up healthy new populations.
We will analyse and share results of this, nationally & internationally as appropriate.
As part of investigating and monitoring the health of the Forth, key species and its ability to support re-introductions, we will be carrying out Citizen Science surveys to monitor existing species in intertidal areas and establish baselines. Opportunities to be involved
Moving slightly inshore, but as an important part of the wider picture, Edinburgh’s biodiversity-poor urban environment (like most cities) is starkly apparent along the shore where most of the original natural shoreline, adjacent grasslands and woodlands have been lost to hard sea defences and urban development. We will be creating an extensive coastal wildflower meadow at Silverknowes with the help of local volunteers.
