Life 100% for Nature News

RSPB Scotland is working in the Cairngorms to restore mountain woodland. Tiny Willow saplings have been carried across the rugged Cairngorm Plateau and planted around Loch A'an. The team returned to see how the little trees are getting on.

Credit: Genevieve Tompkins/RSPB RSPB Scotland manages over 72,500 ha across 79 reserves, making up about half of the RSPB’s total UK land holding. Many of our reserves in Scotland are on legally protected sites: this means they are protected f...

RSPB Scotland manages over 72,500 ha across 79 reserves, making up about half of the RSPB’s total UK land holding. Many of our reserves in Scotland are on legally protected sites: this means nature is protected from damage and there are also o...

A small Spartina anglica plant in the foreground as the group is shown a recovering area of saltmarsh. Photo credit: Robert Dewar  In partnership with the Highland Environment Forum, RSPB's Central Highland reserve tea...

One of the RSPB Scotland reserves included in the LIFE 100% for Nature project is on Oronsay: located in Scotland’s Inner Hebrides, neighboured by the islands of Colonsay and Islay, and home to a suite of Special Protected Areas (SPA) for bree...

RSPB Scotland wants to be at the forefront of developing new ways to improve habitats for nature. Sometimes that means trying out surprising things. But few are as unusual as bringing robotic cutters into an ancient forest to help threatened capercai...

In August 2021, work at Loch Lomond to improve the habitat for wintering geese commenced after delays due to the Covid-19 pandemic.  Around 1% of the global population of Greenland white-fronted geese spend their winter at RSPB Loch Lomond.&nbsp...

Earlier this summer, a hardy band of volunteers carried thousands of downy willow saplings over the Cairngorm Plateau as part of a bid to restore the important montane habitat. Planting the native trees is an important stage in a wider programme...

At our Abernethy reserve, we are embarking on an exciting trial to introduce cattle grazing to a section of the forest.  The reserve is an important site for capercaillie, which are scarce and highly localised in the UK.  We're trying to im...

At our Insh Marshes reserve, we're introducing a small herd of Koniks to trial grazing the reed, which is spreading and reducing the quality of the fen habitat.  Over the next few years, we hope the impact of the ponies will help improve the imp...