Navigating Complexity: Upland Rewilding Realities

A detailed investigation of the ecology, climate and Holocene history of the Scottish uplands by a growing number of experts challenges the imaginative vision we're being sold by rewilders.

Wild salmon are in crisis but there is hope

Concerned by salmon numbers? See what is happening in the salmon conservation world

Moorland Management: Separating Fact from Fiction

What's is the truth about the impact of traditional moorland management?

Snowdrops and Silks: Love and Renewal in the Springtime

In which we consider some of the issues that attend the seething cocktail of hormones that may be provoked by the annual rise of temperatures and a resurgent countryside in Spring.

Curlew Conservation Chronicles: The Fight for Survival

As the poster child for conservation in the UK the curlew is known far and wide, but are we really benefitting the species?

You’re Not Doing Enough with Wild Garlic - Trust Me.

Wild garlic, or ramsons, is one of the first wild foods to appear each year. Most foragers will make some soups or pesto, but that barely scratches the surface of what this pungent and versatile plant can do - and you can start as early as February.

Shooting and the Shipping Forecast

General synopsis for the season. Variable, occasionally rough later. Good.

Trees & Black Grouse: is woodland creation all it's cracked up to be?

Moorland managers are often encouraged to plant trees for black grouse along the moorland fringes, but these birds are too complicated for quick fixes and easy answers. Trees are part of the picture, but there's more to consider...

Schrodinger's Honey

Not what you think it is. A short guide to the murky world of industrial honey

Death Finds a Way

Atlantic salmon aren’t meant to be confined in pens. They are the ultimate blithe spirits. Nature intended these magnificent creatures to be wild and free, not cooped up in cages, and she is simply not going to stop until we finally accept defeat.

The Battle for Our Green Spaces

The unnecessary divide between town and country is caused by ideological assumption, ignorance, and plain bad manners from both sides.

Let Them Drink Gin! DEFRA Explains How Farming Will Survive

A recent committee meeting in Westminster revealed just how little DEFRA understands when it comes to farmers and farming.