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Rewilding workshop in Glen Affric 17-24 May 2025
A Rewilding Journey: Rewilding the World and Ourselves
A weeklong workshop with Alan Watson Featherstone & Pupak Haghighi
Glen Affric, Scottish Highlands
Are you interested in Rewilding, in learning how you can take practical action yourself or in how to start up your own rewilding project? If the answer is yes then this weeklong workshop is designed for you. It will be based in a remote part of beautiful Glen Affric in the Scottish Highlands, site of a long running project to restore the Caledonian Forest. More details & bookings are here.
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Welcome to my web site! I am an inspirational public speaker, ecologist, nature photographer and writer based in the Findhorn Community in the northeast of Scotland.
In 1986 I founded the award-winning conservation charity, Trees for Life, which works to restore the Caledonian Forest in the Scottish Highlands.
I care deeply about our planet, and have dedicated my life to protecting its biological diversity and sharing the beauty and wonders of the natural world through my photographs, talks and writing. Read more
My latest blog post
The abundant life of dead wood, part 3
This blog is the third in a series, and follows on from Part 1, in which I wrote about the role of fungi in helping to break down dead wood, and Part 2, which focussed on slime moulds. Here I’ll describe some of the invertebrates associated with dead wood, including springtails and mites.Springtail (Neanura muscorum) amongst common jellyspot fungi …
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Branches of a downy birch (Betula pubescens) covered in old man's beard lichen (Usnea filipendula) & other lichens beside a young Scots pine (Pinus sylvestris) in the Caledonian Forest in Glen Affric yesterday.
I photographed these olive oysterling fungi (Sarcomyxa serotina) fruiting amongst some moss on the trunk of a standing dead rowan tree (Sorbus aucuparia) in the Caledonian Forest in Glen Affric yesterday.
My colleagues can no longer deny that this is genocide. We must follow our own U.S. laws. We need an Arms Embargo now.