The Wet Woods LIFE Project is a partnership of
Scottish Natural Heritage, Forest Enterprise, the
Forestry Commission, the Royal Society for the
Protection of Birds and Highland Birchwoods which
recieved funding from the European Union's LIFE
Nature Programme to undertake a series of
conservation initiatives on two priority habitats
known collectively as 'wet woods'.
The broad aim of the project is to restore and enhance
some of the most important areas of bog woodland
and floodplain woodland in the United Kingdom located
on or adjacent to areas designated as candidate Special
Areas of Conservation (cSAC) under the EU Habitats
Directive.
The work will focus on five areas of damaged or
threatened habitat associated with four of the ten
candidate SACs listed for these habitats in the UK :
• Monadh Mor on the Black Isle
• Pitmaduthy in Easter Ross
• The Conon Islands on the river Conon
• Abernethy in Strathspey
• Inshriach at the foot of the Cairngorms