In Cairngorms National Park in the Scottish Highlands, purple heather cloaks the hillsides and sloping mountain peaks crest and plunge like waves towards the horizon. It’s a vast, godly landscape that ...

Amid a push to build more wind turbines, Scottish Tory MSP Liam Kerr said almost 16 million trees had been felled in Scotland to accommodate wind farms. He cited that concerns over this development ...

Scotland was once home to 1.5 million hectares of native Caledonian pinewood. Now only 1% of this life-supporting habitat is left. Elizabeth has worked since 2010 as a writer and consultant covering ...

Work has begun on a scheme to restore native Caledonian pine forest in Speyside, which will involve planting almost 100,000 trees. The project is focused on the RSPB's Abernethy Forest nature reserve.

I WAS pleased to hear calls for a low-carbon economy from the Labour Party conference. Perhaps we will see long-term measures introduced soon to achieved this. Scotland has a great expanse of moorland ...

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Scots Pines once dominated the landscape of Scotland, part of the vast Caledonian Forest which began to spread some 10,000 years ago after the end of the last ice age. Now only one per cent of the ...

A beautifully decorated bothy amid ancient pinewoods in the Caledonian Forest is the setting for a relaxing creative break Blanketed by snow, the forest is almost silent, with only the muffled crunch ...

THE letter in NATURE of June I would come as a shock to foresters throughout the world. It states that the Scotch pines at Auchnacarry are perhaps the largest and finest fragment that is left to us of ...