The Great Trossachs Forest Vision
The Great Trossachs Forest National Nature Reserve celebrates the incredible beauty of the area and its rich cultural heritage. By restoring, protecting, and enhancing native habitats including high canopy oak woodland, Caledonian pine, wood pasture, wet woodlands, open moorland, montane, wetlands and grassland; ecosystems with a high biodiversity value will be created. Land management practices will result in a dynamic system with components expanding and contracting over time in response to natural processes. Additionally, the area will become a showcase for wildlife, tourism, outdoor leisure activities, outdoor learning, research, and partnership working.
Our work for nature and the climate
We are creating a forest landscape large enough to support a dynamic, resilient, and functional ecosystem which expands and contracts over time allowing as many habitats and species as possible to adapt and move in response to climate change. By creating new woodlands and conserving existing woodlands, moorland, montane scrub, wood pasture, grassland and wetland habitats will attain a mosaic of habitat networks, sufficiently robust to withstand the impacts of climate change.
Our work for people
The Great Trossachs Forest is a renowned focal point offering a high-quality visitor experience within Loch Lomond and the Trossachs National Park and a key destination attracting visitors from the United Kingdom and overseas benefitting local communities both socially and economically. By providing improved facilities and integrated physical access between existing networks enables safe and spectacular off-road routes on a landscape scale. Working with local communities and businesses, developing innovating interpretation materials and utilising the National Nature Reserve brand will enable the optimal provision for all.
Our work to promote learning
We involve schools, universities, research institutes, and volunteers by providing opportunities for people to learn about cultural and historical landscapes, forest ecosystems, sustainable land management, climate change, biodiversity, and wildlife and to develop informal learning opportunities through themed events, interpretation, and information.
Our work to inspire partnership working
To be a flagship partner setting an example and encouraging other land managers to work across boundaries to benefit wildlife and people. Working with key stakeholders, communities and land managers as well as internal promotion within our partner organisations ensures The Great Trossachs Forest is a well-known and well respected National Nature Reserve. Promotion of the National Nature Reserve benefits and successes to policy makers, practitioners (national and international), stakeholders and land managers demonstrates the value of partnership working at a landscape scale whilst also delivering individual partner corporate objectives.
