Vast Highlands initiative to boost nature, re-peopling, rural livelihoods and economic opportunities including sustainable timber, venison, fishing, farming, wildlife tourism

Habitat restoration is creating an upwards trend in black grouse numbers in the Highlands – offering hope for the endangered birds and for wider biodiversity, a study has found.

2% of Scotland’s land now rewilding, new figures reveal

A remote ancient woodland – home to Scotland’s oldest wild Scots pine, which is at least 565-years-old – has been saved from being lost forever and given a chance of regeneration thanks to Trees for Life, as part of the charity’s vast Affric Highlands rewilding initiative.

Launched at the conclusion of a high-level gathering in Vienna, the European Rewilding Coalition brings together Europe’s leading practical rewilding organisations. By working together, the coalition membership will accelerate landscape-scale rewilding across the continent.

  An expanding alliance The 12,000-hectare Attadale Estate in Scotland has just become the thirteenth estate to become an official partner of the Affric Highlands rewilding coalition, signing a memorandum of understanding in early September. Official Affric Highlands partners now cover 41,700 hectares of land, while discussions are ongoing with four additional private estates totalling 22,900 hectares. … Continued

Rewilding charity Trees for Life will showcase its Affric Highlands youth engagement programme on Saturday 2 July at Eden Court in Inverness with the launch of a nature-inspired photography exhibition and a new Green Leadership Award. The event (12 – 4 pm) is part of the inaugural Highland Climate Festival. Affric Highlands brings together communities … Continued

Britain’s largest rewilding initiative has been earmarked by the UK and Scottish Governments as a globally-prestigious showcase project to help nature, people and climate, as the United Nations (UN) Decade of Ecosystem Restoration steps up action to halt climate breakdown before 2030.

An ambitious 30-year landscape-scale rewilding initiative to link up a majestic sweep of the Scottish Highlands as one vast nature recovery area connecting Loch Ness to Scotland’s west coast has been launched by Trees for Life, and joins a select group of prestigious European rewilding areas.

Rowan Doff works at Corrary Farm in Glen Beag on the Glenelg peninsula, which sits between Loch Alsh and Loch Hourn. The farm is home to several nature-positive enterprises, including an organic vegetable farm and brewery that supplies the local community. The glen’s 2,000-year-old Pictish brochs, or ‘duns’, add further intrigue to the area, and … Continued