Lukas VFN 🇪🇺<p>A mecca for rewilders: the community-led project restoring Scotland’s southern uplands<br><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/mar/20/a-mecca-for-rewilders-the-community-led-project-restoring-scotlands-southern-uplands" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">theguardian.com/environment/20</span><span class="invisible">24/mar/20/a-mecca-for-rewilders-the-community-led-project-restoring-scotlands-southern-uplands</span></a></p><p>"About 6,000 years ago, most of southern <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/Scotland" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Scotland</span></a> was covered by <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/broadleaf" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>broadleaf</span></a> <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/woodland" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>woodland</span></a>, interspersed with patches of rich <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/scrub" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>scrub</span></a>, <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/heath" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>heath</span></a> and <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/bog" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>bog</span></a>... Now, thanks to the <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/CarrifranWildwood" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CarrifranWildwood</span></a>, one of the UK’s first community-led <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/rewilding" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>rewilding</span></a> projects, patches of habitat resembling Scotland’s primeval <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/forest" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>forest</span></a> are staging a comeback."</p>