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Previous Projects of the Living Water Charitable Trust

Czech/English Environmental Dictionary

The Royal Brackla Distillery

 

Czech-English / English-Czech Environmental Dictionary

Many environmental concepts are not in the Czech language and in order for people to understand the terms and meanings a comprehensive dictionary is required. This dictionary has now been published and has the potential to be translated into other languages and will also be published in English. It is the result of a collaboration between Zivá Planeta (Living Planet), Charles University (Prague), and the Living Water Charitable Trust, amongst many others.

 

The Royal Brackla Distillery - ecological water and waste treatment

In April 1997, LWCT received a grant for £5000 from the Water of Life fund to transform Brackla' s Old Mill ponds and surrounding land into a home for wildlife.

Across the mill-pond at the Royal Brackla Distillery

The impetus for the project came from the distillery workers themselves who both came up with the idea to improve their local environment and obtained the grant for the work. LWCT created a landscape plan and successfully created a habitat of wetland plants and trees in the first phase.

In May, a team of 8 volunteers, plus staff from the distillery worked together to create wetland along the ponds marginal shelf (which had to be constructed), and plant a wide variety of trees along the pond edge.

Tree planting for habitat creation at the pond edge

LWCT would like to thank everyone who participated in the project, especially Guy Braga for an excellent landscape plan, and to Living Water for donating Guy's and Jane Shields' time on the project. This was the Trust's first habitat creation and landscape scheme carried out on a charitable basis in Scotland. We hope to undertake more projects like this in the future.