Fife Pilgrim Way
The Fife Pilgrim Way follows a medieval pilgrim trail across Fife. Modern day walkers can enjoy this 64 mile route, starting at North Queensferry and Culross and finishing in St Andrews.
ExploreThe Fife Coast and Countryside Trust is an independent charity working with partners for a healthy environment that supports wellbeing and sustains the balance between people and nature.
Spread across more than 70 sites, FCCT maintains the Fife Coastal Path, Fife Pilgrim Way, the Lomond Hills Regional Park, local nature reserves, and award-winning beaches. The organisation has its headquarters at Harbourmaster’s House in Dysart where it manages a coastal visitor centre.
Mission Statement
Connecting Environment and People
Vision
We lead in the care of Fife’s outdoors. Working together with you, we create a healthier environment that supports wellbeing and sustains the balance between people and the natural world.
Friday, May 15 May 2026
All change at the Eden Estuary! We've welcomed back a good number of summer breeding..
FCCT offer a range of events, activities, conservation activities, guided walks and family friendly events to encourage the younger generation to develop a love of the environment.
This section includes an extensive range of downloadable resources, including themed walks
and information leaflets, which are sure to enhance any visit to Fife.
Great to see everyone at Rosyth Gala on Saturday! We spoke to lots of people about our river restoration project which is now entering its design phase. We asked folk to add to our poster, visualising how they’d like the Rosyth rivers to look in the future. And we had some great additions: lovely trees, lots of frogs and fish, and even a dinosaur!
Thanks also to all who helped us with a riverfly survey, testing the freshwater invertebrate diversity in the Brankholm Burn. We mostly found freshwater shrimp which are quite resilient to low water quality, suggesting there’s lots of work to be done to restore this habitat properly.
If you’re interested in helping out with regular riverfly surveys, please get in touch with river restoration project manager Maddie – madeleine.deacon@fifecountryside.co.uk
And read about the Rosyth River Restoration project here:
https://fifecoastandcountrysidetrust.co.uk/projects/rosyth-rivers-restoration/
#riverrestoration #rivers #Rosyth #nature #climateaction #invertebrates #fish #wildlife #westfife #getinvolved
Fife’s trees and woodlands are special places - for nature, for climate and for people. Every small action helps them to thrive. To celebrate the care people across Fife are giving to our trees and woods, we’re inviting you to take part in the Fife Climate Forest: One Small Action for Trees and Woods Challenge.
This summer, we want to hear what you’ve done to care for a Fife tree or woodland. It could be something simple or something you’re really proud of - every action matters.
🌳All the details here: https://www.climateactionfife.org.uk/projects/community-tree-planting-and-natural-environment-enhancement/fife-climate-forest/fife-climate-forest-one-small-action-for-trees-and-woods-challenge/
@climateactionfife #FifeClimateForest #getinvolved #trees #climateaction #onesmallaction #competition #loveFife #lovetrees #communitywoodlands
See us in the kids marquee at Fife Show for art and mucking around in the sandpit! 😎
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🦅 Visit us at Fife Show
📌Tomorrow, Saturday 23rd May
📍 Kinloss, near Cupar, KY15 4PE
Maciej and Mike will be in the kids` countryside marquee with fun and free activities to help your wee ones learn about wildlife and the countryside. And Marjory and Claire will be in the Fife Coast and Countryside Trust gazebo talking trees and countryside with Iain from @woodlandtrustscotland We have a fun activity lined up!
Please come and chat to us about:
🌳 Where and when to plant trees
🌳 Your queries as landowners and land managers
🌳 Great places to see wildlife
🌳 Wonderful walks like the Fife Pilgrim Way
🌳 Beautiful beaches and nature reserves
🌳 Our river projects at Rosyth, Coul Den and Balbirnie Park
🌳 Getting involved with us
We look forward to seeing you!
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🐋 Balbirnie Park River Restoration Update 🐋
River restoration works have started in Balbirnie Park, Markinch, but before anything could begin, we needed to relocate the fish! @forthriverstrust came to help us (thank you!) using electrofishing equipment to find fish living in the section of river where works are taking place.
Electrofishing involves passing a mild electrical field through the water which temporarily immobilises fish so they can be scooped up and relocated to a safe area. In just one small stretch of river, the team found over 50 native brown trout parr, 80 trout fry and 1 eel!
These have all been safely relocated upstream so that they are not disturbed by the works, and a net is in place in the river to prevent the fish from re-entering the site until works are complete. We will continue rescuing fish as the works make their way downstream.
The Back Burn river restoration project will remove a total of 11 fish barriers, so by the end of the project these fish will have a much greater area of habitat to roam and access new food sources and spawning grounds. The works are done over the summer to avoid overlapping with when migratory fish are spawning.
Read about the project: https://fifecoastandcountrysidetrust.co.uk/projects/back-burn-at-balbirnie/
@fifecouncil @scottishepa @cbec_eco_engineering_uk @mcgowan__environmental @balbirniehouse @go_glenrothes
#riverrestoration #fish #BackBurn #Balbirnie #Glenrothes #loveFife #FCCT #eel #trout #browntrout #nature #environment #natureretoration #climate
