2024 Nature of Scotland Awards Shortlist 

The winner of the Community Initiative Award is being decided by a public vote – select your favourite project by clicking on the Community Initiative Award button. Voting will close on the 15 October. 

• Biodiversity flourishing across ScotRail’s network 
• Connect Outdoors – Tiso 
• Highland Boundary Wild Distillery 
• Ocean Winds: With Nature in Mind 
• Sharing Perthshire's Wonderful Wildlife 
• University of Glasgow Estates Grounds Team 

• Island communities pushing back the marine litter tide 
• Reducing Whale and Basking Shark Entanglements 
• Restoration Forth 
• Seabirds Count - the status of Scotland's breeding seabirds 
• The Removal of Morton Quarry Weir by Hand 

• CLP Nature Action - The Power of Collaboration, For People, For Nature, For Climate
• Healing in trees: The Cairngorms Connect Tree Nursery
• Tayside Biodiversity Partnership – Community Nature Champions for 25 Years
• The Coastal Champions of Berwickshire

• Caerlaverock Estate's 'Link Caerlaverock' Nature Restoration Project
• Clyde Valley Waders Farmer Group 
• Corncrake Calling
• Grampian Graziers - "baling out" grasslands
• North Isles Landscape Partnership Scheme (NILPs) - Habitat Restoration Project
• PepsiCo FAB Project

• Black Scottish Adventurers
• Bringing Nature connection and Nature Mindfulness into Prisons
• Cairngorms National Park - Volunteer Experience Programme 
• Murton Trust and Angus Young Carers 
• Nature 4 Health - where nature leads the way!
• Prescribing Nature: Accessible and Inclusive Dundee Nature Connections
• The Woodland Refuge

• Edinburgh Nature Network
• SSRS - Novel Monitoring for National Red Squirrel Protection
• The Common Ground Forum
• The Facility for Investment Ready Nature in Scotland (FIRNS)     
• Woodland Trust’s Water Horse Saving A Forest

• Baron's Haugh Wetland Regeneration
• Clyde Climate Forest
• Levern Water River Restoration Project
• Northwoods Rewilding Network
• The Flow Country Partnership

• Bamff Ecotourism
• Dundreggan Rewilding Centre: Bringing people and nature together
• Edinburgh International Conference Centre’s Climate Action Contribution Project
• Hebrides Cruises: In Search of Giants Research Project   
• Nature Scotland ~ Isle of Mull ~ Wildlife Tours   
• WILDHOOD Festival  

• Alastair Stephen - Salmon champion 
• Catherine Lloyd - 25 Years of Championing Tayside Biodiversity   
• Clifton Bain - Peatland & peatland species Champion
• Dave Sexton - The Man with the Sunlit Eye

• Balbirnie’s Future Foundation: Nature Pioneers Balbirnie Fife 
• Burray's Beautiful Birds 
• Cairngorms National Park Junior Ranger Project 
• Morgan Academy Health and well being garden 
• Young Sea Changers Scotland (YSCS)