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Heritage, bioacoustics, and the Blue economy: Are Native Oysters clearing the way to a truly regenerative business model?

Tom Ashton of Native Aqua talks to Nimaya Lemal, Bioregioning Tayside’s Storyteller. It’s no secret that we have a broken economic model and a sea experiencing ecosystem collapse. We know that these crises are linked: centuries of industrial exploitation and pollution have destroyed biogenic habitats. These include European native oyster reefs, once a keystone species…

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The Bioregioning Tayside Team Is Developing

A first tranche of funding from the NoVo Foundation (renamed the Regional Futures Fund) at the end of 2025 has enabled us to begin to expand our core team. A second tranche is promised at the end of this year which will further enable us to strengthen our governance and organisational capacity, and significantly increase…

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A Framework For Action For The Tay Bioregion Part 3

A Framework for Action for the Tay Bioregion (2025–2045) – Part 3: Governance, Collaboration & Finance When we published Part 1 of our Framework for Action for the Tay Bioregion earlier this year, we described it as the beginning of a conversation about understanding its lands, waters, biotic and human communities, and assessing its current…

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Conducting the Catchment: What South Africa Can Teach The Tay Bioregion About Water, Finance and Coordination – Guest Post by Myles Mander of EcosystemIQ

Bioregioning Tayside has begun work of developing a Bioregional Investment Vision for the River Isla Catchment – a vital natural asset in the Bioregion, sustaining agriculture, biodiversity, and rural livelihoods across Strathmore, while securing water supplies for the eastern Bioregion, including Dundee. The work is being led by Myles and Nicci Mander of EcosystemIQ, based…

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Open Call: Artist/Illustrator Competition

Bioregioning Tayside – Reimagining Tayside as a Living Bioregion Open Call: Artist/Illustrator Competition £1000 prize & commission contract Opens 10am, 4th March, closes 5pm, 10th April 2026 We are launching an open competition to find an artist or illustrator who can help shape a distinctive visual language for Bioregioning Tayside, one that grows from the…

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A Framework For Action For The Tay Bioregion Part 1

As part of the development of the Bioregional Financing Facility, we have been drawing together a lot of data with which to develop a Framework For Action For The Tay Bioregion. Regenerating the Tay Bioregion: A Framework for Action (2025–2045) presents the first comprehensive bioregional strategy for ecological and cultural renewal within the Tay River…

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Feeling For The Foundation Part 2: How our Bioregional Financing Facility could bridge the gap between regenerative ambition and investable reality.

In Part One of this two part update on our Bioregional Financing Facility work, we explored the systemic challenges facing regenerative finance in the Tay Bioregion and why a Bioregional Financing Facility (BFF) is needed to bridge the gap between regenerative ambition and investable reality. In this second part, we turn to the question at the…

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