Not too late to get that friend a gift for Christmas! 🦫✨ Browse our selection of fun totes and tees. swbg.teemill.com

Glen Affric beavers 🦫 Our Beaver Management Officer, Tobias, has been carrying out monitoring and supplementary feeding as the beavers settle into their new home. Check out this one taking a peaceful swim in Loch Beinn a’ Mheadhoin. 📷 Tobias Leask #Beaver #Rewilding #Reintroduction

For more inspiration on temperate rainforests, follow @irishrainforest.bsky.social. On his land in Ireland he let the forest regenerate naturally (protecting it from grazing), rather than plant trees, as in the Dartmoor project above (from 15:00): takes a bit longer but best! His books are also👍!

🗑️💢 @europarl.europa.eu just cleared away the few remaining environmental safeguards in EU farming policy Two rushed rounds of so-called “simplifications” have gutted years of progress and handed #BigAgri exactly what it wanted: money to pollute with no strings attached ✂️ Here’s what we’ve lost ⬇️

“We’re all trying to get where we’re going safely.” Enter wildlife crossings. y2y.net/blog/how-wil...

Professional deer stalkers are a vital part of Scotland's ambitions for nature recovery. Poorly understood and not always appreciated, their work is critical to restoring habitats and reversing Scotland's legacy of wildlife declines. 🎞️ Watch the full film here: https://youtu.pulse.ly/6bsi1najdu

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We love your partner portraits and the great work of Leadburn Community Woodland too. Great to see aspen thriving and the ponds adding biodiversity. Beautiful photos!

Our latest Partner Portrait, brought to life through evocative photography, explores Leadburn Community Woodland – a rewilding success story shaped by local hands. 📷 Check out the full visual story here: https://scotlandbigpicture.pulse.ly/9ysyiohujt #NorthwoodsRewildingNetwork

Fantastic article in The Scottish Farmer by Tom Bowser www.thescottishfarmer.co.uk/opinion/2568...

Following SLE's recent report 'Repopulating Rural Scotland', we have published a statement setting out our perspective on what is truly needed to reverse depopulation & ensure local communities can take charge of shaping their areas for a better future. Read our statement 👉 tinyurl.com/4sdjmk65

Seen in today's Independent newspaper. Did you know beavers are more monogamous than we are, ranking 6th whilst humans are 7th ! 🦫

Fantastic news and a very worthy winner 😁💪👏🦫

As Groundwork have pointed out - if you told farmers they won't be allowed graze animals on hills in 30 years - uproar from politicians. You tell them rhodo will stop them grazing hills in 30 years - silence from politicians.

Give it a decade or two, and this and many other spots like it in the southwest will be lost to a thick tangle of invasive rhododendron, requiring unimaginable time and energy to remove. Why is this unfolding calamity being ignored by the authorities?

Pay farmers NOT to have sheep, and many would jump at the chance to do the right thing. But farming is their livelihood, so it won't happen otherwise. *Society* has to do the right thing by nature, and give farmers the option of letting it come back, instead of killing it off.

Over 80% of culled badgers were found to be disease free. The view of nature as an expendable annoyance, instead of our vital life support system, has no limits. share.google/Wxw0sGac83Ji...

If we want to know what rewilding success might look like in Ireland, we only need to look across the water to Scotland. share.google/G3ADx45gtCvU...

"There's this common misconception that ecologists like me might see deer as a problem, but that's not the case at all." Join Sarah Watts, on a journey across Corrour Estate, as she emphasises the crucial role of deer and those who manage them. www.scotlandbigpicture.com/rewilding-st...

Our @biggive.bsky.social #ChristmasChallenge is LIVE – and for one week only, your gift will be doubled* to make rewilding happen for nature, climate and people. 👉 Donate now and double your impact this festive season: https://biggive.pulse.ly/fdmpuix2pk @givingtuesday.bsky.social

Pls forget Black Friday and support this amazing rewilding charity and your donation will be doubled!!

There’s still time to grab your ticket for the Ceilidh for Nature on 11 Dec, taking place at our Northwoods partner site Kinkell Byre. As a proud sponsor of the event, we’ll be there on the night with our nature stall. Come and join us! Tickets and details here: bit.ly/48c4P2H

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Is the conservation sector willing and able to be as radical as @chrisgpackham.bsky.social suggests it needs to be? In my experience, institutions keep radicals at arm’s length...until they’re successful that is. music.amazon.co.uk/podcasts/ce8...

Restored Woodland pond looking fab! ❤️🐸🌳🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

This cartoon never gets old.

This #NationalTreeWeek marks 50 years of celebrating trees – and few are more in need of attention than the aspen. 👉 Find out more about our #PaintingScotlandYellow campaign and be part of the movement to restore #aspen: https://scotlandbigpicture.pulse.ly/l2q8uuw0zj

“The younger generation is the most ecologically informed ever." They are also “the most emotionally involved in [nature loss], have contributed the least to [its] causing, and are going to suffer most as a result.” The power of rewilding to transform our own lives, as well as nature.

"𝘈𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘨𝘭𝘰𝘣𝘢𝘭 𝘩𝘶𝘮𝘢𝘯 𝘱𝘰𝘱𝘶𝘭𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘶𝘦𝘴 𝘵𝘰 𝘴𝘰𝘢𝘳, 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘱𝘭𝘢𝘯𝘦𝘵’𝘴 𝘸𝘪𝘭𝘥 𝘱𝘭𝘢𝘤𝘦𝘴 𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘪𝘯𝘤𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘴𝘪𝘯𝘨𝘭𝘺 𝘴𝘲𝘶𝘦𝘦𝘻𝘦𝘥, 𝘱𝘦𝘰𝘱𝘭𝘦 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘸𝘪𝘭𝘥𝘭𝘪𝘧𝘦 𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘣𝘦𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘤𝘦𝘥 𝘵𝘰𝘨𝘦𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳 𝘭𝘪𝘬𝘦 𝘯𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳 𝘣𝘦𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘦.” Check out this fascinating photo-story from Berlin. www.scotlandbigpicture.com/rewilding-st...

𝗦𝗮𝘃𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗱𝗮𝘁𝗲 𝘁𝗼 𝗠𝗮𝗸𝗲 𝗥𝗲𝘄𝗶𝗹𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗛𝗮𝗽𝗽𝗲𝗻 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗻𝗮𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲, 𝗰𝗹𝗶𝗺𝗮𝘁𝗲 & 𝗽𝗲𝗼𝗽𝗹𝗲! Our @biggive.bsky.social #ChristmasChallenge opens on 2 Dec – for one week only, every £1 you give will be doubled. 📆 Mark your calendar and get ready to double your impact!

Managed by Forestry and Land Scotland, Glen Affric becomes the 20th landholding to join the partnership, adding 17,604 hectares of precious #CaledonianForest, wetlands and #peatlands to this growing landscape-scale recovery.

If you’re near Fort William on 29–30 November, why not join our Loch Abar Mòr team and help get 700 new trees in the ground? 🌱 A great opportunity to get hands-on with nature restoration and help kickstart woodland recovery! 👉 Details and sign-up here: https://google.pulse.ly/qk7b7tondo

Can beaver wetlands create a buzz and a flutter for pollinators? 🦫🦋 A new study, carried out by Senior Ecologist Patrick Cook for his PhD at the University of Stirling, revealed that wetlands created by beavers have 45% more butterflies than those created by people.

Mountain lions making a comeback in the northeast US. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Once used as a decoy airfield in World War II, Harestone Moss still bears its bomb craters – but today they’re filled with life. Our new short film captures the transformation of a landscape shaped by war into one of recovery and hope. 🎞️ Watch the full film: https://youtube.pulse.ly/9b9n1r3fgs

The problem here is that farmers are given no other livelihood options on these places, aside from sheep. So it's a *societal* issue.

Big congratulations to our Northwoods partner, @South Clunes, a finalist in the 2025 #NatureOfScotlandAwards for their commitment to nature-friendly farming. Winners will be announced on November 20! Find out more about South Clunes Farm here: https://scotlandbigpicture.pulse.ly/eyg1pip9tu

Scots pine was a major part of the prehistoric wildwood here on the Beara Peninsula, but died out as habitats were cleared for farming. Now, it's back. #Rewilding

"the practice of muirburn actually made no difference to the extent of the Dava megafire. Muirburn dries out the land by killing off the vegetation and drying out the peat, making it less resistant to fire. leaves behind lots of dead stems of heather which which provide perfect fuel”Prof D MacMillan

Campaign group Restore Nature with @davegoulson.bsky.social are fighting to protect Todrig from turning into an ecological desert in the form of a spruce plantation– Scot Forestry didn’t even think it deemed an environmental impact assessment . Beggars belief .

From bomb site to biodiversity hotspot. This is a great wee story. #northwoods youtu.be/ksB4sKTjD8k?...

Taxonomy & classification - of species, communities, ecosystems, etc - is the underpinning of ecology & conservation Yet can be a weakness - seeing nature in terms of fixed entities Rather than of flows, processes and variability The latter are the basis of functioning & resilience

We're told one of these land uses is 'productive', while the other is not. But in terms of photosynthetic levels, as well as the production of clean air, water, no flooding, a stable climate, etc, etc, the natural ecosystem wins hands down. As for biodiversity, let's not even go there.

There's a selection of stories at this link from different parts of Europe. Lynx translocations are a non-event, they happen all the time. It's only Ireland and Britain that we see such fear mongering! www.linking-lynx.org/en/working-g...

And of course I’d be remiss if I didn’t shout out the role of beavers, who are laying the groundwork for salmon recovery in Spencer Creek & other Klamath basin streams by creating rearing ponds for the next generations of coho & steelhead. Tired: dams made of concrete Inspired: dams made of willow

A massive rewilding project in Ukraine is proving helpful for the wellbeing of veterans as well as helping large natural areas recover.