Rewilding Scotland

This article is an offshoot of our Ecological restoration Scotland page and focuses on community led rewilding or initiatives involving local communities.

• The Scottish Rewilding Alliance, collaboration between like-minded organisations who share a mission to enable rewilding at a scale new to Scotland.
• Northwoods Rewilding Network, scotlandbigpicture.com, Scotland-wide chain of landholdings committed to nature recovery and whose partners share a vision for an ecologically-restored landscape, where habitats are better connected and species can recover, expand and disperse. Page includes a map or Partners.

From Wikipedia:John Muir Trust

The John Muir Trust (JMT) is a Scottish charity, established in 1983 to conserve wild land and wild places for the benefit of all. The Trust runs an environmental award scheme, manages several estates, mainly in the Highlands and Islands of Scotland and campaigns for better protection of wild land.

• John Muir Trust, VIDEO: John Muir Trust channel on youtube.com
• South of Scotland Golden Eagle Project, added 15:32, 23 December 2023 (UTC)

How 100 landowners in Scotland are bringing nature back

Authors: SCOTLAND: The Big Picture, 3.18 mins.

Date: 2026-01-20

The John Muir Trust: Our Wild Places

Authors: John Muir Trust, 6.50 mins.

Date: 2025-02-17

Why Not Scotland? Official Trailer

Authors: SCOTLAND: The Big Picture

Date: 2024-01-17

Introduction to Seawilding 2023

Authors: Seawilding, Jun 30, 2023

Argaty Beaver Release

Authors: SCOTLAND: The Big Picture, Dec 3, 2021

Choices

Authors: SCOTLAND: The Big Picture

Date: 2021-07-23

Cairngorms Connect: A Wild Landscape in the Making

Authors: Cairngorms Connect

Date: 2021-07-20

SCOTLAND: The world's first Rewilding Nation?

Authors: The Scottish Rewilding Alliance, 1.56 mins.

Date: 2021-02-17

South of Scotland Golden Eagle Project

Authors: Rick Taylor, 3.34 mins.

Date: 2020-05-31

Cairngorms Connect has a 200-year vision, to restore woodland to its natural limit, including high altitude montane woodlands; restore blanket bog and forest bogs, and restore natural processes to river floodplains. These restoration projects are intended to deliver benefits to people: reducing flood-risk, storing carbon, and providing homes for wildlife, as well as great places for people to visit. ^W

• "Our vision", scotlandbigpicture.com

Trees for Life - Restoring the Caledonian Forest

Authors: Trees for Life, Jan 22, 2015

From Wikipedia:Trees for Life (Scotland)

Trees for Life is a registered charity working to rewild the Scottish Highlands.

• Trees for Life, Dundreggan Rewilding Centre, treesforlife.org.uk, (Highland)

• Rewilding Nation Charter

The Scottish Rewilding Alliance is urging people from all walks of life to sign the Rewilding Nation Charter which calls on the Scottish Government to commit to nature recovery across 30% of land and sea. Despite growing praise for its rewilding progress, more than 2% of Scotland’s land is now (Spring 2024) rewilding, Scotland remains one of the most nature-depleted countries on Earth. Scotland is ranked 212 out of 240 countries and territories for the state of its nature, and 11% of its species face extinction.

Growing numbers of communities, charities, farmers and landowners are taking action to turn Scotland’s nature crisis around – helping society cope with climate breakdown’s floods, wildlife die-offs, droughts and crop failures, while creating jobs and economic opportunities. Rewilding 30% of Scotland can be achieved by restoring wild habitats including peatlands, native woodlands, wetlands, rivers and seas, with no loss of productive farmland. Rewilding goes hand-in-hand with nature-led farming, fishing and forestry, the Alliance says. Sign via rewild.scot, Scottish Rewilding Alliance.

The campaign includes a new feature-length film called Why Not Scotland? (Official trailer above), which explores how rewilding could happen on a bigger scale in the country. The documentary is being shown on a nationwide screening tour, Spring 2024. More information, including availability for independent screenings from 1 April 2024 via scotlandbigpicture.com...scotlandbigpicture.com/press-releases/, March 15, 2024

News archive

• Vast area of Scottish Highlands to be rewilded in ambitious 30-year project, Sep 24, 2021...theguardian.com

Video archive

• Scotland, The Big Picture, rewilding for nature, climate and people. Video: SCOTLAND: The Big Picture on youtube.com
• Seawilding, Argyll and Bute community action