Description
Picture this: 1995, the Cairngorms, and the National Trust for Scotland decides to take on a massive restoration project at Mar Lodge Estate. Over 5,000 species call this place home: ancient pinewoods, wild mountains, boggy moorlands, rushing burns and frozen lochs.
Sounds idyllic, right? There's just one catch: centuries of human interference had left those magnificent Caledonian pinewoods on life support.
Radical action was needed, and fast.
Cue 25 years of graft, determination and genuine passion. And guess what? It worked.
The pinewoods are bouncing back, the bogs are thriving, the mountains are looking majestic again.
Regeneration is Andrew Painting's brilliant account of this turnaround, packed with the inspiring people who've made it happen and the incredible wildlife that keeps them going.
But it's not just a feel-good story. This book digs into the thorny stuff too: raptor persecution, deer management, rewilding debates. It makes you think about what conservation really means and challenges you to ask the big questions: what are we actually looking at when we gaze at our wild places?
And more importantly, what should we be seeing?
Paperback 304 pages.
Approx: 12.8 x 19.7 cm.