Alan Watson Featherstone

ECOLOGIST, NATURE PHOTOGRAPHER AND INSPIRATIONAL SPEAKER
FOUNDER OF THE AWARD-WINNING CHARITY TREES FOR LIFE

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“Alan has been an inspiration for many decades, with the vision to see Scotland recover some of its forests.”
– Dr Ulrich Loenig, human ecologist

Public speaking

Writing

Photography

Image of the Week

Bluebells (Hyacinthoides non-scripta) and red campions (Silene dioica) in flower, with sandstone cliffs behind, between Hopeman and Covesea on the Moray Coast.

News

Exploring Possibilities podcast

I was interviewed this week for the Exploring Possibilities series of podcasts hosted by Sheryl Sitts in the USA, about working in cooperation and co-creation with Nature in the Findhorn Garden and my work with Trees for Life to help restore the Caledonian Forest in the Highlands of Scotland.

The podcast can be heard here.

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About me

alan-watson-featherstoneWelcome 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

A shieldbug extravaganza, part 2

Teneral adult parent bugs (Elasmucha grisea) on a leaf of the silver birch tree on the Findhorn Hinterland area on 12th August 2020.

“I realised that I was watching a major event in the life of this shieldbug, the closest human equivalent of which may be being born from our mother’s womb. Somehow it felt like a great privilege to witness this profound and almost miraculous process of transformation. It’s a useful exercise to imagine what it must feel like to break out of what ha …

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