REWILDING STORIES
Informative and inspiring stories that catalyse Big Picture thinking.
Featured Story
Featured Story
When Rivers Run Free
With many of Scotland’s rivers straightened, dredged and de-wooded, ecologist Aidan MacCormick immerses himself in a dynamic free-flowing river system to better understand how natural processes drive abundance and diversity in nature.
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Rewilding by the people, for the people
The Northwoods Rewilding Network supports more than 75 landholdings to commit to nature recovery, including those managed by communities. There are a growing number of Northwoods sites where rewilding is being led by local people, delivering nature-based jobs and improved health and wellbeing.
This is rewilding by the people, for the people.
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Friends with benefits?
The synergy between beavers and aspen reminds us that nature recovery cannot be achieved one species at a time. We need to be willing to let nature lead, embracing the marvellous complexity that wildness generates.
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A Burning Question
Muirburn – the controlled burning of vegetation for land management purposes – has been practiced for centuries, but as the Scottish Government reviews its policy on wildlife management and muirburn, is repeatedly burning our landscape really the best way to protect it?
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The Lynx Binding Life And Death
In the absence of apex predators in Scotland, key ecological interactions, such as carcass scavenging, are either absent or significantly suppressed. A steady supply of dead deer, partially eaten by lynx, would increase the year-round availability of carrion – a resource that, ironically, supports so much life.
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A Quaking Voice Sings In The Glens
The under-recognised, under-represented aspen is on the march at Mar Lodge in the Cairngorms, where landscape-scale nature recovery is giving this unique tree the chance to sing once again.
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The Trouble With Reintroductions
Opinions on the return of missing species vary widely, but in the face of increasing biodiversity loss and calls for a wildlife comeback, should the question around reintroductions be shifting from ‘whether’ to ‘when’?
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Journey To The Wild!
Across much of Scotland, young forests are on the march, river systems are being transformed and wild animals are being reintroduced to wander unimpeded across habitats increasingly shaped by natural processes. We may not be able to show people wolves, but we can show them a landscape of hope.
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Lynx With Slovenian Hunters
In Slovenia, hunters are helping conservationists to reinforce a critically threatened lynx population, recognising the lynx has a vital role to play in a healthy forest ecosystem.
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What Price An Oyster Bed?
The way we value nature has to change if we want to restore it. In the second of a two-part feature, Matthew Hay examines how new rules, new metrics and new markets can lead to the services that nature provides being properly valued.
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