Biodiversity
Land Management for Machair
Machair is fertile low-lying grassland dominated by grasses and herbs. It is unique to the north-west of Scotland and Ireland and is one of Europe’s rarest habitats. Found along the…
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Living Alongside Beavers
Argaty Estates was the first landowner in Scotland to legally relocate beavers. Tom Bowser explains what it’s like to farm alongside beavers. The benefits he has seen includes flooding and…
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Mitigating Beavers’ Impacts on a Farm
Kate Sanky from West Moss-side Organic Farm has noticed beaver activity on her land and is concerned about the risk of flooding to her land and business. Dr Roo Campbell,…
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Accommodating Beaver Impacts on a Farm
Nicola Colquhoun from Ledcharrie farm, a family run deer farm in the north of Loch Lomond and the Trossachs National Park, discusses how she first noticed beavers on her land.…
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Beavers: Translocation, Ecology and Mitigation
The Cairngorm National Park Authority (CPNA) is in the process of applying for a license to translocate beavers to the national park. Jonathan Willet and Lewis Pate from CNPA discuss…
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Agribusiness News June 2023 – Sector Focus: Biodiversity
Why is biodiversity important? Biodiversity, the diversity of biology, refers to all the living things on earth, and the complex relationships they have with one another, which we refer to…
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Natural Capital – Highlands Rewilding
We talk to Dr Jeremy Leggett from Highlands Rewilding, who are aiming to rewild and repopulate the highlands through a business model focusing on enhancing and restoring natural capital. Doing…
Read More > Natural Capital – Bees, Butterflies and Biodiversity
We begin our second series of Natural Capital exploring Bees, Butterflies and Biodiversity with Dr Lorna Cole, an agricultural ecologist whose work addresses the challenge of feeding our growing world…
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Thrill of the Hill – Aiming at Success
Farmers are custodians of the landscape in Scotland, and the farmed environment accounts for roughly 75% of all land in the country, but farmers need not take all that responsibility…
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Farm Woodland News (FWN39) Spring 2023
Use the link above to download the latest Farm Woodland News, or click through the individual chapters below. Articles in this edition include: Editorial Maximising the benefits of riparian woodlands…
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