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A Burning Question
Words by Hugh Webster
Images by Mark Hamblin & Tierney Lloyd
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?
ReadThe Lynx Binding Life And Death
Words by Hugh Webster
Images by Laurent Geslin, Peter Cairns & Mark Hamblin
Illustrations by Richard Allen
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.
ReadA Quaking Voice Sings In The Glens
Words by Andy Painting
Images by Mark Hamblin
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.
ReadThe Trouble With Reintroductions
Words by Hugh Webster
Images by Peter Cairns & Mark Hamblin
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!
Words & Images by Peter Cairns
Images by Mark Hamblin & James Shooter
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.
ReadLynx With Slovenian Hunters
Words by Michael Willett
Images by Jay Knight, Lan Hocevar, Mark Hamblin & Peter Cairns
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.
ReadWhat Price An Oyster Bed?
Words by Matthew Hay
Images by Peter Cairns, Mark Hamblin, Philip Price & Richard Shucksmith
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.
ReadWhat Price A Pinewood?
Words by Matthew Hay
Images by Peter Cairns & James Shooter
The way we value nature has to change if we want to restore it. In the first of a two-part feature, Matthew Hay sets out the big issues we must tackle in order to align economic and ecological interests.
ReadThe Capercaillie Conundrum
Words by Hugh Webster
Images by Peter Cairns & Mark Hamblin
As the political and cultural tension around Scotland’s capercaillie reaches a new high, the population of the world's largest grouse hits a new low. Is it time to ditch the dogma and think outside of the box?
ReadWest Coast Wilding
Words by Gareth Overton
Images by James Shooter
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On the Ross of Mull lies a magical place where rewilding has been happening for 25 years. Tireragan is the largest site in the Northwoods Rewilding Network and is an inspiring example of what can happen when people have the vision, and the will, to allow nature to recover.
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