Guest blog – Walshaw Turbine 5 by Nick MacKinnon

Nick MacKinnon is a freelance teacher of Maths, English and Medieval History, and lives above Haworth, in the last inhabited house before Top Withens = Wuthering Heights. In 1992 he founded the successful Campaign to Save Radio 4 Long Wave while in plaster following a rock-climbing accident on Skye. His poem ‘The metric system’ won…

Press release Scottish Rewilding Alliance – Three-quarters of Scots want more beaver reintroductions

Three-quarters of Scots want more beaver reintroductions – but government agencies ‘go slow’ despite beaver deaths  Three-quarters of Scots want Scotland’s public bodies to step up action on beaver reintroductions, shows research conducted for the Scottish Rewilding Alliance.   But government agencies are not delivering on a Scottish Government call on them to lead in…

Press release from Trees for Life

Leap forward for red squirrel reintroduction on Scotland’s west coast Red squirrels could return to the entire northern coastline of Scotland’s west coast Morvern peninsula and flourish again on neighbouring Ardnamurchan following reintroduction of the species by Trees for Life.   The rewilding charity has this spring released six red squirrels into broadleaf woodland on the remote…