Northwoods Rewilding
Scotland The Big Picture
We are the 50th Land Member to join and act on these key rewilding commitments:
MORE NATIVE WOODLAND: Plant mixed broadleaves, fruit trees and Scots pine in protected enclosures.
Trees Planted over last 5 years, around 7,000.
MORE SPACE FOR WATER: Create new scrapes and leaky dams / ponds.
Picture on right is our first pond (2005), 2 scrapes built and at least 4 leaky dams built up to 2024, 2 more great ponds built in March 2025, as well as a smaller shallow pond.
JOINED UP HABITATS: Continue to create woodland corridors in linear enclosures linking fragmented habitat; remove redundant fencing. Still an ongoing project into 2025. Latest section is last major section requiring planting then its just filling in the small gaps.
CONNECT WITH COMMUNITIES: Encourage local community to enjoy the landscape through the installation of benches, tables and paths. Ongoing into 2025 and 2026.
CREATE REWILDING BUSINESS: Continue development of low-impact rural accommodation enterprise and involvement with nature appreciation tourism.
Pictures on this page are from parts of our Nature Restoration / Rewilding Projects.
Top Right;
Fantastic pond build which was done 20 years or so ago now and it looks so natural and is a haven for all sorts of wildlife and flora / fauna. Its about 30 x 40 meters in size and was roughly 10 feet deep in the middle.
Middle and lower Right;
These 2 are from our latest scheme in conjunction with Northwoods, as they have given us a grant to create 2 seed islands made of sustainable materials where at all possible. We have also used re-cycled tree guards and canes from trees that are now big enough to survive without them. The trees come from my Northwoods supplier (Mark Hamblin), the trees were small saplings that I potted on for a year so they were big enough to go out in compounds this year and will therefore have a better chance of surviving.
Planting; these will be planted up with Rowan / Aspen / Downy and Silver Birch / Grey Willow / Hazel and locally sourced Oaks from friends who have them in there gardens.
The 2 compounds are finished now. They both measure 4.8 x 9 meters and have the 4 rails that take the sides up to around 5ft to deter deer. Just need me to strim and finish the planting before the end of August 2025.
More pictures coming once work is completed on the compounds.
