Tags - Biodiversity

The Moorfoot Hills project demonstrates how peatland restoration efforts can help build greater resilience to climate change impacts through the delivery of multiple ecosystem benefits, including...

The Scottish Wildcat is one of our most endangered native species. We currently have no reliable estimates for the numbers of wildcats remaining in the wild, but they are highly endangered. To reverse...

A scheme that fostered a partnership between a public body and private estates to restore peatland at one of the highest sites in the UK has won an innovation award at the RSPB Scotland Nature of...

Bees and honey producers are thriving across parts of Scotland thanks to a helping hand from one of the nation’s most iconic birds – the red grouse.

Despite long held concerns over a decline in the...

Hopetoun Estate

Hopetoun offers young people a large variety of educational resources for lifelong learning, with workshops, activities and events suitable for a wide range of groups, from nursery...

Colonsay Estate

In 2010 a group of tourist operators on the Isle of Colonsay formed the Colonsay Tourism Marketing Group with the aim of increasing tourist numbers on the island and improving their...

Stracathro Estates

Stracathro Estates comprises 4000 arable acres and 500 acres of commercial and amenity woodland. It is located in Strathmore between the glens and the sea in lowland Angus.

The...

For the second year in a row Countryside Learning Scotland received an enquiry from Coupar Angus Primary School wanting their pupils to visit an arable farm and for the second year running Will...

Finzean Estate

Finzean is a 4,000ha mixed estate located in Deeside. It is managed as a family business, with interests in farmland, moorland, forestry, sporting and conservation. It’s role in a...

The Earn-Tay-Almond Grouse Management Group was founded in 2007 with the objective of re-establishing the Perthshire moors as one of the principal areas for red grouse shooting in Scotland, through...

Remony Estate

Remony Estate is located on the southern shore of Loch Tay in Perthshire and is owned by the Duncan Millar family.  The primary business of the estate is hill-farming, with tourism...

Ardtaraig Estate

For a couple of chilly days in April, Ardtaraig Estate on the Cowal Peninsula, in collaboration with the education charity Countryside Learning Scotland, invited four local primary...