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Forest to bog restoration

The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) have peatlands as a key focus.  A Commission of Enquiry on Peatlands was set up recently to produce an authoritative set of reports assessing the science on key areas of relevance to policy makers. Strath Caulaidh is co-authoring one of the reports along with ScottishPower Renewables, focused on forest-to-bog restoration.  A draft of the report is due for submission soon.  Here’s a…
May 12, 2018
About Us

1 million hectares of monitoring

In chatting over a few things last week for a tender we were preparing, we calculated that Strath Caulaidh now monitors over 1 million hectares of land in Scotland for its clients.  Quite an achievement by all the staff, past and present, and a great milestone to reach as we near our 20th anniversary. When we started trading in October 1998 things were a wee bitty different – here are two…
April 27, 2018
Weekly News

Lowland deer management

  Lowland deer management is an increasingly hot topic.  The Lowland Deer Network Scotland has been trying to get to grips with the many challenges being caused by deer expanding into lowland areas. Here’s a good example of the kind of problems coming to the ‘fore!’…        
April 25, 2018
Working Week

Major survey in the Cairngorms

This month we started Phase 1 of a major new project with the Cairngorms & Speyside Deer Management Group.  It involves measuring deer occupancy and deer impact levels across the major woodland areas north and south of Aviemore, on the west side of the Cairngorms.  In the first phase, we are working with the RSPB at Abernethy and with Rothiemurchus estate, alongside SNH at Dell Wood.     In the…
April 24, 2018