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
“This is a place where humans appear to have been a positive force on this landscape and its biodiversity over thousands of years.”
A rainforest in the Putumayo region of Peru has been home to relatively unaltered forest for 5,000 years. The people who have lived there found a long-term way to coexist with nature–and the evidence is in microscopic bits of silica and charcoal in the soil.
