Cairngorms Connect: Woodland Expansion

Cairngorms Connect is a partnership of neighbouring land managers, committed to a bold and ambitious 200-year vision to enhance habitats, species and ecological processes across a vast area within the Cairngorms National Park.
In this film ecologist Ellie Dimambro-Denson talks about the work taking place to expand the range of native woodlands within the project.

[@capturingnaturewithsandip]

Nice and beautiful video. Thanks for sharing. Big Like11

[@kurtzwar729]

Great story. I have watched forest restorations here in the US as well. Deer browsing newly planted or emerging forests will destroy them. Deer are plentiful and prefer new shoots.
Without removing deer, this whole project would be doomed. Predators can be introduced after the forest is old enough to sustain damage from deer. There are currently not enough deer hunters in the USA and the UK to keep the deer populations down. And it will be decades, if ever, that there will be enough predators to keep the deer in check and the forest healthy.

[@consciouslove]

Thank you so so much for what you do to restore our country 🥹🥹🥹🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻

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[@Captainval28]

Would’ve been better with the woodland if you reintroduced wolves, bears and lynx and used mainland europes wildcat population to reintroduce as well it would’ve ensured that deer would still be there while also making deer graze less often due to the effect of the wolves or lynx