A Competitive Coastline: Pressures and Prioritisation of (Waste) Water
Management at the interface of Terrestrial and Marine Planning
TEF Report (Spring, 2024) commissioned by Catchment Tay Ltd explores how the changing interface between Terrestrial and Marine planning affects the water sector.
Read the report HERE
From June 1st to 30th 2024, Tayside Biodiversity Festival is celebrating the 25 year anniversary of the Tayside Biodiversity Partnership with a diverse programme of local events! Find out What’s on HERE
The Impact of Winter Storms, field trip led by Prof. Rob Duck, TEF Chair, June 18. 2024
TEF took part in Tayside Biodiversity Festival 2024 by leading a free excursion to examine erosion damage following a series of destructive Winter storms to the dunes and to see how the beach is recovering. This is part of a broader awareness TEF is bringing to regional Climate Change impacts.
It’s time to have your say.
With your help over the next five weeks, we are going to create the ‘Insider’s Guide to Angus – 100 Unmissable Experiences’.
Take part using our Social PinPoint and plot your unmissable experiences on the map, or join in the conversation with us over on our Facebook page, where we will explore different categories over the next five weeks.
Connect with YOUR Coastal Community!
With people up and down our coast stuck inside recently, unable to meet up with friends and family, this is the time for you to link up online!
To this end the East Grampian Coastal Partnership (EGCP) is seeking to build connections between people and communities along the coast with support from Tay Estuary Forum (TEF).
The ‘EGCP Coastal Connects’ project seeks to develop an online coastal community network to communicate information of interest so all ages: including stories, recommendations, recipes, photographs and tips amongst many other things. They have developed a new website forum: www.egcpcoastalconnects.com and a Facebook page: www.facebook.com/egcpcoastal connects
Why not join and share information about this coastline with everyone!
If you have any pics, tips and tales to share, then we would love to hear from you! It could be about your work, a favourite walk or bike ride, favourite views or a wildlife experience. Basically, anything to do with the Angus and Aberdeenshire coast’.
The idea is to build an online catalogue of entries then to convert this into maps and guides for wider use over time.
A large fire took hold of the Tay Reed beds near Errol on Monday 27th April, widely-reported by local and national media (links below).
VIDEO: Helicopter drops water from the air to tame fire along banks of River Tay in Perthshire
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-tayside-central-52449975
There is no doubt this fire will have had a significant impact on this season’s bird populations on the Tay Reed Beds, for which it holds international importance, particularly as it took place during nesting season, but the area is dynamic and will recover- the concern is that wildfires become an increasingly common event under climate change, with fire-seasons lasting longer globally, putting pressure on fire-fighting resources to preserve our moorland, forest and heathland environments, which we have seen highlighted several times in recent years in the UK, e.g. on Saddleworth Moor in 2018. When fires like this occur, there is an opportunity to learn how to support and strengthen our prevention, response and recovery efforts and techniques, in adapting longer-term to a warming climate. Tay Estuary Forum, 29-4-20.
CP COASTAL consultation Tay Estuary Forum
TEF members are encouraged to respond to the consultation plan and take the opportunity to help shape the future work of Crown Estate Scotland. More information on how to respond can be found by clicking the link above. This report is now out to consultation until 25 November 2019. The views and feedback received will be used to finalise the Corporate Plan which will be launched in April 2020.
Click on the link below to read all about this year’s Angus Coastal Festival, after a very successful event last year. TEF are taking part and we look forward to seeing you there!
