Felling and extraction of 70,000 tonnes of non-native timber has started at Loch Arkaig Pine Forest near Spean Bridge in Lochaber. The mammoth effort will free remaining native trees to take back the site in one of the biggest Caledonian pinewood restorations ever attempted. [caption id="attachment_23746"...
[caption id="attachment_23742" align="alignnone" width="419"] The stunning Assynt landscape includes mountains such as Suilven. Pic by John MacPherson[/caption] The Assynt Foundation and Woodland Trust Scotland have entered a 30-year partnership to revitalise Glencanisp and Drumrunie Estates in the North-west highlands. The result will be a resilient upland landscape...
Urgent action is required to stop Rhododendron ponticum wiping out Scotland’s rare rainforest, according to a new report published by Woodland Trust Scotland in partnership with Scottish Land and Estates. (View it here) The report was funded by Postcode Green Trust and made possible by support from players...
Woodland Trust Scotland has launched an £8million public appeal to buy the 4,500-acre Couldoran Estate in Wester Ross and manage it for people and wildlife over the coming decades. [caption id="attachment_23455" align="alignnone" width="300"] Couldoran Estate, Wester Ross, Scotland[/caption] Couldoran, near Lochcarron, neighbours our existing site at Ben Shieldaig and...
Edinburgh has officially launched its ambitious target to become a Million Tree City by 2030 as part of its commitment to be net zero by the end of the decade. Woodland Trust has contributed £298,055 from the Emergency Tree Fund to support project delivery. This money will...
The Trust's Malcolm Turner and Caz Austen from Ben Shieldaig, Tom Reed of Citizen Science and outreach advisor Alan Crawford collaborated with Wester Ross Biosphere and NatureScot to co-ordinate some training in ancient trees in Wester Ross last week. Ancient Trees are hugely under-recorded in the...
A woodworker who made elaborate commemorative benches for Woodland Trust's most northerly site is to be himself commemorated by his final unfinished piece. Bill Ross of Ardgay in Sutherland died on Hogmanay aged 76. The story of his woodland benches began in 2015 when an oak tree...
[caption id="attachment_21923" align="alignnone" width="300"] Loch Arkaig Pine Forest's 2021 chicks. Photo by Lewis Pate[/caption] Two osprey chicks that dodged the gaze of online fans this summer are finally on view with the release of pictures and video taken when they were ringed. A nest camera supported by...
A huge new urban forest is to be planted by the City of Glasgow and seven surrounding local authorities - with investment of £400,000 from our Emergency Tree Fund. The Clyde Climate Forest will see 18 million saplings planted over the next decade - which represents ten...
[caption id="attachment_20946" align="alignnone" width="300"] Nell is a trainee dog with Lomond Mountain Rescue.[/caption] Woodland Trust Scotland's Glen Devon Woodlands have hosted a mountain rescue exercise run by the Ochils Mountain Rescue Team and the Search and Rescue Dog Association Southern Scotland. Glen Devon is the collective...