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Continued restrictions meant we had to cancel our autumn Conservation Weeks.
We applied for and were gratefully awarded funding from the Heritage Lottery Emergency Fund to contract tree planters who are able to work safely within current guidelines. This autumn, 57,000 trees will be planted in Carn na Caroach and 25,000 in Glen Affric.
Continued restrictions and ongoing uncertainty has meant we have cancelled Conservation Weeks for spring 2021.
As we are doing this autumn, we will use contractors to support our planting in Dundreggan and Glen Affric in the spring of 2021.
Our Red Squirrel Reintroduction Project was suspended, pushing the programme back at least six months.
The project is now back up and running. Working to strict safety guidelines, the team are now returning these iconic animals back into their natural habitats in the North West Highlands. This project is also supported by the Heritage Lottery Emergency Fund.
All of our community engagement work was suspended, postponed or cancelled.
During this autumn, where guidance allows, we are getting out and about again engaging communities with our work. Where that is not possible we are creating online resources so that wherever you are, you can continue your rewilding journey supported by Trees for Life.
We were unable to recruit new participants for our Trainee programme for this year.
It is our ambition to recommence the traineeships in spring 2021.
The Caledonian Pinewood Recovery project was put on hold due to travel restrictions.
With the lifting of travel restrictions, the project is now up and running again. The team are back engaging with landowners and surveying their pinewood remnants. The next stage of the project is now being planned.
Eight staff were put on furlough and other staff voluntarily took reductions in pay during lockdown.
Most staff have now returned to their roles. Two have been redeployed to other areas of the organisation due to the continued postponement of their projects.