2026 Nature of Scotland Awards Winners sand Shortlist

Congratulations to all our finalists! The shortlist for the 2026 awards represents a cross-section of businesses, charities, the public sector and individuals working towards conserving the country’s unique wildlife and natural environment.

The winner of the Community Initiative Award is being decided by a public vote – select your favourite project by clicking on the Community Initiative Award button. Voting will close at 11pm 24 September.

• A Tree for Every Key
• APEX Tubulars – Saving Nature on the Dee
• Nature first restoration from the Future Forest Company
• Regenerating Faldonside - for nature and for people
• Waterside Farm Nature Restoration

• Bringing Beavers Back to the Cairngorms
• Guardians of our Rivers
• Restoring the Back Burn
• Returning the Tadpole Shrimp to Mersehead
• SkateSpotter
• The River Within Partnership

• A Wild Wood For All
• From Fly Tipping to Flourishing Nature
• Growing Community Through Nature In Castlemilk Park
• Heads Up for Seals
• Nevis Nature Network

• Canna’s Community Corncrake Collaboration
• Dalswinton Estate Bird Diversity and Soil Health on a Grazing Dairy
• Heather and Philip Close - Balsar Glen Farm
• Knoxfauld: Healthy Peat, Farm & Future
• Totally Nature Friendly 
• Toxside and Moorfoot - a haven for wading birds 

• Fortune Works Growing Together for Nature, Wellbeing and Inclusive Communities
• From Grey to Green: Growing Wellbeing Together
• Nature Mingle, bringing the outdoors indoors
• Restoring Nature, Building Communities
• Wild Dundee: Where People and Nature Thrive

• Deep-Sea Coral Restoration
• Fair Isle Community led MPA Ecosystem Research
• ObservaTree – Protecting Peatlands 
• Siubhal a’ chladaich (SaC)– traversing the shore
• Species on the Edge

• Cairngorms Connect Mountain Woodland Restoration Project
• Flooding and biodiversity – Restoring the Peffery
• Glen Rosa Wildfire Recovery, One Year On
• MERLIN Case Study 17 - The Scottish Partnership
• Source to City: Loch Katrine's Catchment Regeneration
• Wild Strathfillan

• Glenlivet Estate Dark Sky Park
• Macs Adventure’s Pathways to Positive Impact
• Reconnecting with Nature with Kilmartin Museum
• Royal Forest of Robert the Bruce at Brucefield Estate
• Seabird Safari. Connecting Visitors with Wildlife
• Sustainable tourism with the Inner Forth Bike Bus

• Arran’s Marine Conservation Pioneers
• Mark Ruskell MSP - Nature Hero 
• Robyn Hamilton Nature Empowered TCV Hero
• Sandra Macmillan: Bute’s Coastal Guardian 
• Turning tides on Climate Change through Museum Engagement

• Callum Ullman-Smith
• Daniel Parlour
• Discover Nature Award
• Jack Soe-Paing - Space 2 Be Wilderness Champion
• Katie Monk 
• McKenzie Rayner