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Trees for Life is an award-winning conservation charity working to restore Scotland's ancient Caledonian Forest.
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Bid for Affric & Loch Ness National Park launched
A bid to nominate Affric and Loch Ness as Scotland’s third national park has been launched, with organisers saying the area’s globally important... read more
12.01.2024 • By Trees for Life
Remote woodland – home to Scotland’s oldest wild pine – saved as part of...
A remote ancient woodland – home to Scotland’s oldest wild Scots pine, which is at least 565-years-old – has been saved from being lost forever... read more
12.12.2023 • By Trees for Life
Dundreggan Rewilding Centre near Loch Ness wins international tourism award
Dundreggan Rewilding Centre, a Trees for Life initiative in Glenmoriston near Loch Ness in the Scottish Highlands, has been awarded the British... read more
09.11.2023 • By Trees for Life
Chris Packham and Megan McCubbin present new wildlife show from...
Television presenters Chris Packham and Megan McCubbin will be live presenting a week of anarchic and inspiring autumn wildlife programmes from... read more
18.10.2023 • By Trees for Life
Lynx reintroduction discussed in Scottish Parliament for first time
The case for reintroducing lynx to Scotland is being discussed in the Scottish Parliament for the first time, with a reception today (Tuesday 25... read more
25.04.2023 • By Trees for Life
World’s first rewilding centre opens near Loch Ness
The world’s first rewilding centre has been opened near Loch Ness in the Scottish Highlands by charity Trees for Life – showcasing how large-scale... read more
14.04.2023 • By Trees for Life
Scotland’s ‘ice age’ pinewoods on knife-edge, says first major study in...
Most of Scotland’s globally-unique Caledonian pinewoods are on a ‘knife-edge’ and could become the last generation in a line stretching back to... read more
02.02.2023 • By Trees for Life
Bid to make Glen Affric Scotland’s next beaver release site
A community consultation that will help decide whether beavers are reintroduced to Glen Affric has been launched in the Scottish Highlands, led by... read more
27.07.2022 • By Trees for Life
UK and Scottish Governments recommend vast Affric Highlands rewilding...
Britain’s largest rewilding initiative has been earmarked by the UK and Scottish Governments as a globally-prestigious showcase project to help... read more
17.06.2022 • By Trees for Life
Lynx to Scotland – broad support for further discussions, says study
There is sufficient appetite from a diverse cross-sector of rural stakeholders to examine whether potential barriers to a trial reintroduction of... read more
28.04.2022 • By Trees for Life
One man and his dog complete epic 5,000-mile rewilding trek across Canada
After a gruelling nine months on the road which began on the shores of the Pacific Ocean, 32-year Michael Yellowlees from Perthshire and his... read more
07.12.2021 • By Trees for Life
Legal win offers hope of new era for beavers and farmers
Trees for Life’s successful court challenge to the Scottish Government’s beaver killing policy offers hope for a new era that benefits nature,... read more
22.10.2021 • By Trees for Life
Perthshire man’s epic coast-to-coast hike across Canada to help rewild...
In 1867, legendary Scots naturalist John Muir completed a famous 1,000-mile journey on foot across North America from Kentucky to the Gulf Coast.... read more
08.10.2021 • By Trees for Life
Affric Highlands launched to rewild half a million acres of Scottish...
An ambitious 30-year landscape-scale rewilding initiative to link up a majestic sweep of the Scottish Highlands as one vast nature recovery area... read more
24.09.2021 • By Trees for Life
Legal challenge to Scottish Government’s beaver killing policy can...
Scotland’s supreme civil court has given Trees for Life permission to challenge the Scottish Government’s beaver killing policy through a judicial... read more
26.02.2021 • By Trees for Life
Trees for Life crowdfunder to protect Scotland’s beavers raises £60,000
A crowdfunding appeal by Trees for Life to help protect Scotland’s endangered wild beavers has raised almost £60,000 – setting the scene for a... read more
06.01.2021 • By Trees for Life
Scots want beavers moved not shot, new research finds
A majority of Scots agree beavers should be moved to new locations in Scotland instead of being killed, according to new research. The... read more
18.12.2020 • By Trees for Life
Trees for Life launches court challenge to Scottish Government’s...
Trees for Life is to challenge the Scottish Government’s nature agency NatureScot in court over its failure to make the killing of Scotland’s wild... read more
08.12.2020 • By Trees for Life
Call for reports of red squirrel sightings across the Highlands to boost...
Trees for Life is asking people across the Highlands to report sightings of red squirrels for the Great Scottish Squirrel Survey from 21-27... read more
21.09.2020 • By Trees for Life
Golden eagles breed at Highlands rewilding estate for first time in 40...
A pair of golden eagles has successfully reared a chick in an artificial nest at Trees for Life’s flagship Dundreggan rewilding estate in... read more
13.08.2020 • By Trees for Life
£125,000 award for rare mountaintop trees in Highlands
A Trees for Life project in partnership with the National Trust for Scotland to establish new seed sources for rare mountaintop trees in Glen... read more
30.07.2020 • By Trees for Life
Planning application submitted for world’s first rewilding centre
Trees for Life has submitted a planning application for the world’s first rewilding centre at its 10,000-acre Dundreggan estate in Glenmoriston,... read more
03.07.2020 • By Trees for Life
Ministers urged to relocate beavers and end the culling
The Scottish Parliament will have the opportunity to ensure a better future for Scotland’s beavers today, says a coalition of leading... read more
17.06.2020 • By Trees for Life
Volunteers isolate at Highlands ‘lost world’ to save thousands of young...
A team of six people from Trees for Life have been voluntarily isolating themselves at the charity’s flagship Dundreggan rewilding estate in... read more
06.05.2020 • By Trees for Life
£2 million for world’s first rewilding centre near Loch Ness
Trees for Life is to establish the world’s first rewilding centre near Loch Ness in the Highlands – thanks to more than £2 million of support from... read more
07.02.2020 • By Trees for Life
Groundbreaking bid to save Scotland’s disappearing mountaintop forests
A groundbreaking bid to help save Scotland’s almost-vanished mountaintop forests and their wildlife is being launched by Trees for Life, with the... read more
11.12.2019 • By Trees for Life
Red squirrel reintroductions move to Sutherland in new phase of...
Conservation charities Trees for Life and Woodland Trust Scotland have partnered up to return red squirrels to a Sutherland wood. The releases... read more
17.10.2019 • By Trees for Life
Family fun at wildlife-rich ‘lost world’ near Loch Ness
Trees for Life hosted a family fun day at Dundreggan – the conservation charity’s acclaimed rewilding estate in Glenmoriston, near Loch Ness – on... read more
07.08.2019 • By Trees for Life
Festivalgoers urged to help rewild the Highlands
Music lovers attending this year’s Belladrum Tartan Heart Festival – the Highland’s longest running and biggest music festival – are being... read more
21.06.2019 • By Trees for Life
Scientists to study health and genetics of reintroduced red squirrels in...
The health and genetics of red squirrels reintroduced to woodlands in the Scottish Highlands by conservation charity Trees for Life are to be... read more
29.03.2019 • By Trees for Life
