The Rewild Podcast

#2 Seawilding - Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

On the west coast of Scotland, by the shores of Loch Craignish, a community has come together to help restore their marine environment. 

When deciding on how to put something back, they identified two priority marine features they could do something about.

This is a story about carbon capturing seagrass, water filtering oysters & the passionate people tirelessly working to restore both.

Seawilding is a member of the European Rewilding Network, a collection of groundbreaking initiatives across the continent, brought together by Rewilding Europe as part of a broader rewilding movement.

 

 

#1 Affric Highlands - Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

Whilst many visitors come to Scotland for romantic notions of wildness, the truth is, ecologically speaking, it's a massively nature-depleted nation. The Caledonian Forest, Scotland’s native pinewoods, once stretched over much of the land but has now dwindled to just a handful of sites. The remaining trees are aging, and without help, they will struggle to reproduce and disperse, leaving only isolated fragments across the landscape.

So where have they gone? Why haven’t they come back? And how do you go about regrowing a forest lost from the memory of modern-day Scotland?
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The efforts by Trees for Life in Glen Affric contribute to and continue the decades of work of Forestry and Land Scotland who own and manage large areas of woodland in Glen Affric and across all of the Highlands.

Series Introduction

The Rewild Podcast will bring monthly stories of nature recovery from Rewilding Europe’s pioneering Landscapes and European Rewilding Network.

Episode 1, Affric Highlands, coming 30th January, 2023.