Cared for by volunteers of the Tireragan Trust, the site is home to a remnant of nationally important Atlantic rainforest, and has been a rewilding pioneer since 1997 when intensive grazing was curtailed.
Rapid Growth of Scottish Rewilding
Johnny Appleseed
Pocket Orchards Wester Ross, Johnny Appleseed Day
Tory Bill Threatens Our Food Safety & Protections
This Bill also directly impacts on protections in relation to the safety and composition of baby foods and other vulnerable groups could also be affected.
Arcadia Park: It’s Blooming Lovely
The park now contains a myriad of paths, some just grass tracks that disappear between trees.
Arcadia Park : How It Has Grown
A look back as today, Saturday 24th of September, Arcadia Park, is officially opened.
Pando: The World’s Largest Living Organism
What looks like a shimmering panorama of individual trees is actually a group of genetically identical stems with an immense shared root system.
‘The ideal situation is what we should be aiming for’ – New Life for the Land #OISF
‘New Life for the Land and Wildlife and People’ – the title of Derek Pretswell’s talk for the Orkney International Science Festival on Tuesday 6th of September, basically summarised his whole presentation.
Nature Restoration Fund 2022 Opens
“The Nature Restoration Fund will champion ambitious, high-value projects to protect and restore Scotland’s biodiversity on land and sea in the critical years ahead.” Mike Cantlay, NatureScot
Assessing the Environmental Impact of Processed Foods
“An important aspect of the study was linking the environmental impacts of composite foods with the nutritional quality” Jennie Macdiarmid, Professor of Sustainable Nutrition and Health at the Rowett Institute
Connecting with Nature in our Built Up Spaces
Graduate student Lam Huynh from the Graduate Program in Sustainability Science at the University of Tokyo and team conducted a systematic literature review of 301 academic articles exploring the connections between nature and human well-being.
