Breathing life back into our landscapes
Our Rewilding Landscapes Programme works at a landscape scale to connect habitats and restore Scotland’s Caledonian forest. By supporting natural regeneration and restoring woodland, peatland, and riverside habitats, we’re creating healthier, more resilient, and better-connected landscapes.
Helping Scotland’s habitats
We’re working to make our landscapes more wooded, with dense forests and scattered trees, while keeping other areas open for valuable peatlands, winding riverwoods, and species-rich grasslands. By supporting natural processes, we’re restoring nature-rich habitats that provide food and shelter for wildlife and help communities thrive.
Expanding ancient woodlands
Ancient woodland fragments are living time capsules, home to diverse plants, animals, and soils that have survived for thousands of years. We’re committed to supporting natural regeneration to expand woodland remnants, and carrying out targeted tree planting to enable woodland creation.
Rewilding Landscapes Initiatives
Pinewood Landscapes
Enabling the recovery of our globally unique Caledonian pinewoods through cross-sector collaboration and restoration.
View moreDundreggan Nursery
Our nursery grows tens of thousands of trees every year – including many rare and hard-to-grow native species. We nurture these trees from seed to sapling, helping to expand woodlands and restore habitats.
View moreAffric Highlands
An ambitious 30-year initiative bringing together communities, businesses and landowners to restore habitats across Scotland’s wild east-west corridor.
View moreCairngorms Aspen Network
Mapping the location, condition and health of one of Scotland’s scarcest native trees in the Cairngorms National Park.
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