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Rewilding takes off: drone-seeding success offers hope for expanding remote woodlands An innovative rewilding experiment on a hillside on Scotland’s west coast has yielded promising results, raising hopes for faster, more cost-effective reforestation of the country’s wild and rugged uplands. At Dubh Allt, a 780-acre landholding near Roshven on the Moidart peninsula, forester and landowner,…

Singing success for one of the UK’s rarest insects   The Field Cricket was previously threatened with extinction in the UK but has since made an incredible comeback following successful conservation efforts by a range of organisations including the RSPB.  The males are known for their singing, using specially adapted veins on their wings to…

This summer, botanists are out scouring Wales’ most special wildlife sites, trying to re-find wild plants that haven’t been seen for decades. They are taking part in a project, run by the Botanical Society of Britain and Ireland (BSBI) with funding from the Welsh Government’s Nature Networks Programme, to refind priority plants in Wales. BSBI…

These are three solar panels I had installed maybe as long as 20 years ago.  We were early adopters of green technology and these were panels that heated your water – thus saving on gas bills. They were a bad buy – they were pretty expensive, we were sold more than we needed and they…

I know I’m a tad biased, but I do think this is a good book and it’s just as good to read now as it was two years ago on publication day. The idea, launched in this book, of being a conservation investor rather than a ‘member’ or ‘supporter’ is a lasting one and many…