Our science team have written about Highlands Rewilding's approach to wild boar monitoring at Bunloit. The blog explores the results we have gathered and some key trends from this work so far as we look to expand this research and collaborate with neighbours to assess numbers and, where possible, monitor impacts. 

Soil science is crucial but can also be very resource-intensive, and working together is one important way of making it feasible. We host regular visits by scientists collaborating with us, including with Oxford University’s Leverhulme Centre for Nature Recovery and Nature-based Solutions Initiative, recently exploring planned grazing, soil sampling, Mycorrhizal fungi and tree growth

Highlands Rewilding is delighted to announce that we have been successful in our bid for funding under the Facility for Investment Ready Nature in Scotland (FIRNS) scheme, co-funded by The National Lottery Heritage Fund in partnership with the Scottish Government and NatureScot.

Our Engagement Roadmap sets out the basic principles and main steps we want to embed in our engagement processes. This is very much a work-in-progress, and we welcome all feedback on it. Perhaps most importantly, our programme of monitoring on our estates will be used to check whether we’re really delivering the benefits that local communities want – and what approaches can best realise the many potential benefits from Scotland’s environments.

Last Friday was a particularly sunny day at Tayvallich, and the perfect day to undertake this year’s count of Marsh Fritillary (Euphydryas aurinia) butterfly - or rather their webs!

Memorandum of Understanding with Tayvallich Initiative: A roadmap to aligning community, nature and shareholder interests

The land behind the Data. A photo journal across three estates, by Cathy Atkinson, Chief Data Scientist.

Biodiversity cannot be fully accounted for economically, but by not accounting for it at all, we have totally undervalued nature and hugely increased its degradation.

We are putting biodiversity at the heart of our work.

Our Head of Operations, Kirsty Mackay, joins Elanor Harris on Galbraith’s ‘Talking Natural Capital Podcast.

Scotland's Rainforest: Our purchase of Tayvallich estate includes patches of ancient Temperate Atlantic Rainforest. Restoring these increasingly rare and incredibly biodiverse areas of Scottish Rainforest will be one of our most important priorities, write co-Chief Scientists Calum Brown & Penelope Whitehorn.

In defence of the calculated risks inherent in our entrepreneurial model - Highlands Rewilding

Dr Jeremy Leggett, former oil man and founder of Highlands Rewilding, looks back on his own career and calls for oil-industry execs to invest “guilt” money into rewilding, funding nature recovery at scale.

Results from Highland’s Rewilding’s Race for Tayvallich

We have had an exciting and hugely encouraging campaign so far, and will be extending our financing campaign into March and April, now that we can offer confidence in our effort to buy the jewel that is Tayvallich.

Daniel Holm describes how Food Forests, a relatively unknown agroforestry practice, can help small areas of land produce a high diversity of high value crops, discussing the heritage fruit and nut varieties chosen for establishment on a Highland estate.

Winter bale grazing at Beldorney and a 1 minute video introducing regenerative agriculture and controlled grazing on our Scottish estates

A core premise of the Highlands Rewilding model is that you can’t have nature recovery without community prosperity, and vice versa. We capture that in a mantra that we repeat over and over: “our purpose” - the reason why we exist - “is nature recovery and community prosperity through rewilding taken to scale in Scotland.”

Highlands Rewilding welcomes the recent Guardian, Die Zeit and SourceMaterial investigation into carbon offset credits. We believe that continuous and rigorous scrutiny is essential to ensure that carbon and other nature-based credits genuinely contribute to climate change mitigation and biodiversity recovery. We explore here a number of issues that we see as particularly important.

‘Unlocking Scotland’s Soil’ is the second of a series of short campaign films exploring our crowdfund to scale nature recovery in Scotland.

‘My Great Hope’ is the first of a series of short films we will release each week during our campaign to scale nature recovery in Scotland.

Our Second Natural Capital Report paints a picture of tremendous potential for increasing both carbon storage and biodiversity at Beldorney in Aberdeenshire