Forestry and Land Scotland (FLS) is teaming up with the British Dragonfly Society to help protect and boost the population of some of the rarest dragonflies in the British Isles. Over 50 FLS sites are home to some of Britain’s rarest dragonflies. The new conservation partnership will focus on improving dragonfly habitat as a whole, but with a particular focus …
Fifty mature trees that were badly damaged during Storm Arwen have been repurposed from a forest into the river bed of a burn in north east Scotland, in an effort to boost natural habitat, particularly for endangered Atlantic salmon. The mature spruces had been blown and snapped during the winter storms in Forestry and Land Scotland’s (FLS) Scolty Woods outside …
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New research commissioned by Scottish Forestry offers evidence that commercial forestry will be the mainstay of climate emergency mitigation in Scotland’s push towards Net Zero. A recently published report, with work carried out by Forest Research, assesses different options for woodland creation and management from the perspective of carbon sequestration and a reduction in Greenhouse Gas Emissions. It found that …
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A landscape scale restoration project that will see an old conifer forest transformed into a modern, ‘mosaic’ forest, starts in earnest this month. Located in a part of West Sutherland renowned for its mountainous landscapes made up of the oldest rocks in Europe, Forestry & Land Scotland’s West Sutherland land management plan will restore blanket bog and plant new native …
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Cows will be kept under control with GPS collars linked to satellites, in a trial of virtual fence technology – the first in Scotland by Forestry & Land Scotland (FLS).