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Green Spaces Project of
the Month
January
2003 - Cashel -
Forest for a Thousand Years - Glasgow
Contact: Ros Galbraith, Community
Development Worker, Environments for All
at BTCV, Glasgow
tel. 0141 955 1504, mobile 0776 465 5637 r.galbraith@btcv.org.uk
OR: Kenneth 'Monty' Montgomery, tel. 0141
956 6816, mobile 07885 962614
Refugees and asylum seekers from the
rough estates of Glasgow have been
actively engaged in improving the
Scottish landscape by planting trees
– a universal symbol of hope –
on a mountain overlooking Loch Lomond.
Cashel Forest is one of many Millennium
Forest for Scotland projects, with the
ambitious collective aim to restore
something of the unique ecology of the
Caledonian Forest. It is also the setting
for an exciting partnership project,
involving BEN, BTCV and the Scottish
Refugee Council, which aims to give
excluded people a chance to use their
skills, as volunteers, to contribute to
the conservation and sustainable
development of the environment in
Scotland, and thereby to aid social
integration. We find that this approach
benefits not only the volunteers
themselves, but also the people in local
communities with whom they come into
contact.
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