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Rewilding workshop in Glen Affric 10-17 October 2026
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
Over on Twitter…
I found some examples of the Dyer's mazegill fungus (Phaeolus schweinitzii) on the fallen trunk & standing dead trunk of Scots pines (Pinus sylvestris) in Glen Affric yesterday. My hand gives an indication of their size & one of them seemed to have a white fungus on its underside
Pattern of the different layers of the bark on the trunk of an old Scots pine (Pinus sylvestris) in the Caledonian Forest in Glen Affric yesterday.
When I was out in Glen Affric yesterday I was very surprised to find this caterpillar of a northern eggar moth (Lasiocampa quercus) feeding on a juniper bush (Juniperus communis). As we're still in the first half of February it looks like it's another example of global warming.