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Affric Highlands [6] is a 30-year collaborative initiative by Trees for Life and Rewilding Europe who are working to restore woodland, peatland and riverside habitats in the Scottish Highlands. Rewilding supports nature, climate and people by boosting biodiversity, creating jobs, and supporting re-peopling.
In 1986, he formed Trees for Life, with the aim of restoring the Caledonian Forest and its wildlife to the Scottish Highlands. [1] The charity works in partnership with the Forestry Commission, the National Trust for Scotland and the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB) at a number of sites to the west of Loch Ness and Inverness. [2]
Balkello was first planted with trees in the 1990s, and there are now 150,000 young trees growing at the site. [32] [33] Ballachulish: Highland: Located above the former slate quarries on the shores of Loch Leven. [34] Craik Forest: Scottish Borders: Craik Forest is primarily a commercial forest with timber being processed at facilities nearby.
It is in a remote part of the Scottish Highlands and is fairly mountainous. The Forest was originally part of a Caledonian Forest. [76] [77] Argyll Forest Park: Argyll and Bute: 24,281 In 1935, Argyll Forest became the first Forest Park in Britain. It lies on the border between the Scottish Highlands and the Scottish Lowlands. [78] [79] [80 ...
This tree is a cross between the native Rowan and S. pseudofennica. [21] In 2002 it was estimated that 81.6% of Scotland's woodland was coniferous, with much of this consisting of plantations of non-native conifers. The most commonly planted tree species was Sitka spruce, which covered
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All of them occur in the Scottish Highlands. The Caledonian Pinewood Inventory [22] breaks these down into 84 smaller sub-units of the main sites. In March 2019, as part of the implementation of the Forestry and Land Management (Scotland) Act 2018, the Scottish Government listed 84 sites as Caledonian pinewood in regulations, given below. [23]
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