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CEI celebrate completion of over 600 hectares of bog restoration work in East Ayrshire!
The East Ayrshire Coalfield Environment Initiative (CEI) are celebrating their completion of 609 hectares (ha) of peatland restoration work in East Ayrshire! Weitshaw Muir, Sorn © CEI 2019 Our recently completed work at Weitshaw Muir in the Sorn Estate has delivered 130 hectares of blanket bog restoration on deep peat […]
Nature Network Path Patrol at New Cumnock -Wednesday 20th February
New Cumnock Path Patrol! Join the CEI team (Daisy and Scott) on Wednesday 20th February to kick-start this year’s volunteer activities with a Path Patrol at New Cumnock. We’ll be checking some of the shorter paths around New Cumnock for winter damage, identifying over-grown areas and sections that might need repair […]
CEI manages rushy ground for wading birds
CEI has been working with a local farmer, RSPB Scotland and Scottish Natural Heritage to manage areas of dense soft rush, creating habitat for wading birds in an area that buffers one of our peatland restoration sites. A mosaic of farmland habitats (including more intensively-managed land) is essential for wading […]
22nd July 2018: Bog Bathing for National Bog Day
We’ve heard about Japanese concept of ‘Forest Bathing’, but what about ‘Bog Bathing’? Often overlooked as ‘that brownish expanse of unproductive land over there where the midges live’, at a distance peatlands can look fairly plain. The unique and untamed beauty of bogs is revealed when explored on foot and […]
Magical Moth Night at Low Moss
Local wildlife enthusiasts joined East Ayrshire Coalfield Environment Initiative (CEI) at Low Moss, a raised peat bog near Lugar, to record moths as part of the National Moth Night 2018. The CEI have run an annual event for National Moth Night for the past six years at various locations throughout […]
Volunteers Week 2018: Why I volunteer by Lucy Filby
To celebrate Volunteers Week 2018 our Vice-Chair, Lucy Filby, has written about her experience as a volunteer and how it helped her progress in her career… Why I volunteer Originally I volunteered to gain work experience after studying, ultimately to get a job. I gained a lot more confidence from volunteering […]
CEI on film – Peat, people and partnerships
We are excited to bring you ‘Peat, people and partnerships’ a film about the East Ayrshire Coalfield Nature Network project! The film highlights achievements of the project and also unveils plans for the future, including a new ‘Nature Network Legacy’ project which will run between 2018 and 2020 and deliver […]
Celebration event marks successful Nature Network project
Forty people gathered in New Cumnock Town Hall on the evening of Thursday 19th April to celebrate the successes of Nature Network, a large-scale environmental project delivered by the East Ayrshire Coalfield Environment Initiative (CEI). Nature Network ran between 2013 and 2018 and was part of EcoCo LIFE, a Central Scotland-wide […]