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Walking-the-Talk

Walking the Talk is a small environmental consultancy offering services in a number of specialist areas throughout Scotland, and beyond. We have a wide range of clients in the public,  private and third sectors, and the following list of projects should give you an idea of our skills and capacity:
Barriers to Participation

We were contracted by Perth and Kinross Council (in partnership with sportscotland and Scottish Natural Heritage) to investigate the barriers to participation in 'active outdoor recreation' within Perth and Kinross.

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Farming and the environment

Walking-the-Talk has been contracted by Scottish Natural Heritage to deliver a series of awareness-raising events and advisory visits for farmers in the Savoch burn / Loch of Strathbeg catchment area near Fraserburgh.

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Windyhills community woodlands management plan

We have been contracted by the Woodhead and Windyhills Community Trust to produce a management plan for 2010 - 2015 for the Windyhills community woodlands.  This will include consultation with Trust members, the local community and other stakeholders as well as preparing the plan and future work programme.

 
Guidance for Habitat Networks

Client: Scottish Natural Heritage

Contract Summary: We have been contracted to develop guidance for a range of audiences to explain some of the concepts in spatial ecology, focusing particularly on ecological networks.

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Scottish Community Land Network

Community ownership of land in Scotland is a big issue, and one that is getting tougher to achieve and maintain in the current economic maelstrom. Small rural communities can find it difficult to gain access to all the information they need without getting overwhelmed by the tide of news and comment. That's where the Scottish Community Land Network comes in...

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Afon Teifi river restoration project

 

We were contracted to produce a programme of works and two funding bids for a large-scale river restoration project in central Wales.

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Mountain woodlands - best practice guidance

We have been contracted by the Action for Mountain Woodlands group to write the text for a new best-practice handbook on managing mountain woodlands.  This will include information on what mountain woodlands are and how land-managers can contribute to their restoration.

 

 
Path Attributes Research

We were commissioned to undertake research on 'Path Attributes'.  The research looked at ways of describing paths in a 'standard format' so that people can gauge for themselves whether a path is suitable or interesting to use.

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Visitor impacts on the Loch Lomond islands

Loch Lomond is world famous for its bonnie, bonnie banks, but it is becoming increasingly infamous for the impacts of recreation on the ecology of its protected species and habitats.

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Path Management Advice

We are part of a three-year framework agreement to provide specialist advice on path management to Scottish Natural Heritage.

 

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Path benefits toolkit

 

We developed a toolkit to allow community groups to undertake evaluations of path networks to investigate the economic and social benefits of path development and use. In addition, we provided strategic advice to the Partnership regarding their support to community path groups.

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Arran Paths and Tracks Feasibility Study

We were commissioned to undertake field survey of paths across Arran and develop proposals for future funding.

 

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