It seems overwhelming, but together we can have an influence.
If you want to help, this is what you can do.
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Firstly, please sign up for our digital newsletter below. We will keep you updated of any developments and let you know of anything else you can do to help as we go along, we need your support. Your information will not be shared with anyone else.
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You can share your views with the consultants who are organising this developement. They are EJD Forestry. Their address is [email protected] and you can find out more about them here. You might like to use some of the information in our recent exhibition here or this sample response shared by a local resident to cut, paste and edit as you like here.
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Please sign and share our petition at this link. https://c.org/fh6cRWcyXd
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Please attend the second public consultation meeting conducted by EJD forestry, to be held at Carsluith Community Hall on the 10th of September 2026, between 3-7pm, to learn more about their plans ,
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You can write to the Kirkmabreck Community Council and the D&G Councillors using our template letter below that you can adjust as you wish. Their contact details are here.
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Be encouraged at how other communities are resisting, and winning against the same intensive land changes. It is possible.
Save Warblaw Action Group, Langholm, Dumfries and Galloway Stobo Residents Action Group, Scottish Borders. Todrig, Scottish Borders Here is the response about the proposal from the Galloway and Southern Ayrshire Biosphere partnership |
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If you would like to express your views on the standards that the forestry industry work to or concerning regional and/or
national policies encouraging afforestation across Scotland, please contact your local Scottish Forestry office. This will ensure that they are considered as part of any revisions or updates to the relevant standards, guidance and/or policy. Contact details for the local conservancy office: Email – [email protected] Address – South Scotland Conservancy, 55/57 Moffat Road, Dumfries, DG1 1NP |
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If we find we must fight for an Environmental Impact Assessment, we need local people to get in touch and let us know about any rare plants or wildlife, please email us at [email protected]
You might also like to add your knowledge to formal records. If you know of any unusual insects, bats, birds or other wildlife - please report it to South West Scotland Environmental Information Centre, Dumfries. Anyone can do it. If you know of any unusual plants, please report it to the Botanical Society of Britain and Ireland |
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Go for a walk up there. Visit the quarries, the stone circles, remember the ancestors, enjoy the views....while we still can.
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