Wonderful!
Landscape scale ecological restoration.
Carrifran, Scotland 🌳 🏴
Aug 2004 - July 2026
Landscape scale ecological restoration.
Carrifran, Scotland 🌳 🏴
Aug 2004 - July 2026
July 26, 2026 at 8:31 PM
Wonderful!
Landscape scale ecological restoration.
Carrifran, Scotland 🌳 🏴
Aug 2004 - July 2026
Landscape scale ecological restoration.
Carrifran, Scotland 🌳 🏴
Aug 2004 - July 2026
Carrifran Wildwood 1999 and now in 2023. Landscape scale habitat restoration.
#RewildScotland #RewildOurPlanet
#RewildScotland #RewildOurPlanet
December 30, 2023 at 9:50 AM
Carrifran Wildwood 1999 and now in 2023. Landscape scale habitat restoration.
#RewildScotland #RewildOurPlanet
#RewildScotland #RewildOurPlanet
Postcards from Scotland: Moffat Water in Carrifran Wood
September 27, 2026 at 6:43 AM
Postcards from Scotland: Moffat Water in Carrifran Wood
Landscape ecological restoration. It can be done but we need to get a move on. This is Carrifran where the sheep were removed to allow this native woodland to take over.
March 4, 2026 at 7:49 AM
Landscape ecological restoration. It can be done but we need to get a move on. This is Carrifran where the sheep were removed to allow this native woodland to take over.
I visited Carrifran Wildwood myself last summer, and the scale of what has been achieved there truly has to be seen to be believed.
At least 400,000 acres is now being rewilded in Scotland: an incredible 2.1% of the whole country, and rapidly increasing all the time.
Come ON, Ireland!!
At least 400,000 acres is now being rewilded in Scotland: an incredible 2.1% of the whole country, and rapidly increasing all the time.
Come ON, Ireland!!
Landscape ecological restoration. It can be done but we need to get a move on. This is Carrifran where the sheep were removed to allow this native woodland to take over.
March 4, 2026 at 7:59 AM
I visited Carrifran Wildwood myself last summer, and the scale of what has been achieved there truly has to be seen to be believed.
At least 400,000 acres is now being rewilded in Scotland: an incredible 2.1% of the whole country, and rapidly increasing all the time.
Come ON, Ireland!!
At least 400,000 acres is now being rewilded in Scotland: an incredible 2.1% of the whole country, and rapidly increasing all the time.
Come ON, Ireland!!
There is hope!
Landscape-scale ecological restoration.
1999 - today 18th May 2025 . This is the inspirational Carrifran in the South of Scotland. We can do it but we need to get a move on otherwise we will be consumed by the dual biodiversity and climate emergencies. 🌳💕🏴
Landscape-scale ecological restoration.
1999 - today 18th May 2025 . This is the inspirational Carrifran in the South of Scotland. We can do it but we need to get a move on otherwise we will be consumed by the dual biodiversity and climate emergencies. 🌳💕🏴
May 19, 2025 at 5:45 PM
There is hope!
Landscape-scale ecological restoration.
1999 - today 18th May 2025 . This is the inspirational Carrifran in the South of Scotland. We can do it but we need to get a move on otherwise we will be consumed by the dual biodiversity and climate emergencies. 🌳💕🏴
Landscape-scale ecological restoration.
1999 - today 18th May 2025 . This is the inspirational Carrifran in the South of Scotland. We can do it but we need to get a move on otherwise we will be consumed by the dual biodiversity and climate emergencies. 🌳💕🏴
Our Policy & Advocacy Manager Simon met MSPs Finlay Carson 🔵, Duncan Dunlop 🟠 & Laura Moodie 🟢 at Carrifran Wildwood yesterday alongside Borders Forest Trust & Dumfries & Galloway Woodlands to press for sustained Holyrood policy & funding for landscape-scale restoration. 🧵1/2
August 21, 2026 at 4:00 PM
Our Policy & Advocacy Manager Simon met MSPs Finlay Carson 🔵, Duncan Dunlop 🟠 & Laura Moodie 🟢 at Carrifran Wildwood yesterday alongside Borders Forest Trust & Dumfries & Galloway Woodlands to press for sustained Holyrood policy & funding for landscape-scale restoration. 🧵1/2
It won’t be much different today but over the road is a different matter - the great Carrifran Wildwood is now 25 years old and looking good.
August 31, 2025 at 9:36 PM
It won’t be much different today but over the road is a different matter - the great Carrifran Wildwood is now 25 years old and looking good.
Our May issue is out! Topics this time include Deadly Nightshade, moths of Carrifran Wildwood, the impacts of meat and dairy consumption on wildlife, the Wryneck in Britain and Dungeness in decline? For more see: www.britishwildlife.com/back-issues/...
May 21, 2026 at 11:53 AM
Our May issue is out! Topics this time include Deadly Nightshade, moths of Carrifran Wildwood, the impacts of meat and dairy consumption on wildlife, the Wryneck in Britain and Dungeness in decline? For more see: www.britishwildlife.com/back-issues/...
Morning visit to #Carrifran Wildwood near Moffat. Inspiring to see habitat restoration on a big scale, 25 years after first trees were planted. #rewilding
December 29, 2024 at 5:13 PM
Morning visit to #Carrifran Wildwood near Moffat. Inspiring to see habitat restoration on a big scale, 25 years after first trees were planted. #rewilding
Carrifran bordersforesttrust.org/wild-heart/c...
Borders Forest Trust
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January 30, 2025 at 6:42 PM
Carrifran bordersforesttrust.org/wild-heart/c...
A sneaky @nationaltrust.org.uk trip over the wall to #BordersForestTrust site #Carrifran. Fab woodland creation & even more extraordinary #RottonBottomBow - oldest bow in UK. 6000yr old yew bow found in 1990s - associated pollen record informed the planting. bordersforesttrust.org/wild-heart/c...
May 19, 2025 at 9:49 PM
A sneaky @nationaltrust.org.uk trip over the wall to #BordersForestTrust site #Carrifran. Fab woodland creation & even more extraordinary #RottonBottomBow - oldest bow in UK. 6000yr old yew bow found in 1990s - associated pollen record informed the planting. bordersforesttrust.org/wild-heart/c...
What to know what rewilding looks like 20 years down the line, go to Carrifran Wildwood in southern Scotland. Such an inspirational project. #rewilding #Scotland www.theguardian.com/environment/...
A mecca for rewilders: the community-led project restoring Scotland’s southern uplands
Established 24 years ago, the Carrifran Wildwood has been credited with inspiring the current surge of rewilding projects across the UK and beyond
www.theguardian.com
March 21, 2024 at 7:19 AM
What to know what rewilding looks like 20 years down the line, go to Carrifran Wildwood in southern Scotland. Such an inspirational project. #rewilding #Scotland www.theguardian.com/environment/...
New post Parkswatchscotland: Invasive Sitka – an example from the Carrifran Wildwood and what to do about it https://parkswatchscotland.co.uk/?p=32942
May 4, 2026 at 11:26 AM
New post Parkswatchscotland: Invasive Sitka – an example from the Carrifran Wildwood and what to do about it https://parkswatchscotland.co.uk/?p=32942
Stopped off for a stroll around Carrifran Wildwood nr Moffat on our way home from the Lakes.
An amazing rewilding project, now 25 years in the making, bringing trees and wildlife back to what was a nature depleted space.
A favourite place for me
An amazing rewilding project, now 25 years in the making, bringing trees and wildlife back to what was a nature depleted space.
A favourite place for me
October 27, 2025 at 6:59 PM
Stopped off for a stroll around Carrifran Wildwood nr Moffat on our way home from the Lakes.
An amazing rewilding project, now 25 years in the making, bringing trees and wildlife back to what was a nature depleted space.
A favourite place for me
An amazing rewilding project, now 25 years in the making, bringing trees and wildlife back to what was a nature depleted space.
A favourite place for me
Heading back south after two varied weeks in Scotland: Cairngorms with @colsocbi.bsky.social, holiday on South Uist and Barra and finally @landscapeecologyuk.bsky.social conference in Edinburgh with a trip to Carrifran. Great memories made, much to think about and I hope to haste back 🏴
July 4, 2025 at 11:53 AM
Heading back south after two varied weeks in Scotland: Cairngorms with @colsocbi.bsky.social, holiday on South Uist and Barra and finally @landscapeecologyuk.bsky.social conference in Edinburgh with a trip to Carrifran. Great memories made, much to think about and I hope to haste back 🏴
Carrifran has rebounded in 25 years - from a treeless glen to a maturing woodland - proof nature recovers fast with the right support. Thanks MSPs & partners. #NatureRestoration @electlauramoodie.bsky.social 🧵2/2
August 21, 2026 at 4:00 PM
Carrifran has rebounded in 25 years - from a treeless glen to a maturing woodland - proof nature recovers fast with the right support. Thanks MSPs & partners. #NatureRestoration @electlauramoodie.bsky.social 🧵2/2
Any kind of rewilding needs a multi-generational effort to be effective (see Borders Forest Trust / Carrifran Wild Wood for examples of rewilding done correctly).
May 11, 2025 at 10:23 AM
Any kind of rewilding needs a multi-generational effort to be effective (see Borders Forest Trust / Carrifran Wild Wood for examples of rewilding done correctly).
Really chuffed pictures we commissioned of The Survivor Rowan at #Carrifran made their way into a Scots language schools resource courtesy of Scots Hoose.
🎵 Sublime music by Innes White and Hannah Rarity.🎵
👂 Gie yer lugs a treat!👂
🎵 Sublime music by Innes White and Hannah Rarity.🎵
👂 Gie yer lugs a treat!👂
The Rowan Tree subtitles
Performed by Hannah Rarity and Innes White, Lady Nairne Caroline Oliphant’s sang The Rowan Tree is a beautiful meditation on nature, memory and family inspir...
buff.ly
February 23, 2025 at 10:00 AM
Really chuffed pictures we commissioned of The Survivor Rowan at #Carrifran made their way into a Scots language schools resource courtesy of Scots Hoose.
🎵 Sublime music by Innes White and Hannah Rarity.🎵
👂 Gie yer lugs a treat!👂
🎵 Sublime music by Innes White and Hannah Rarity.🎵
👂 Gie yer lugs a treat!👂
Just needs a load of these really....
March 15, 2025 at 11:22 AM
Just needs a load of these really....
Dit project in Schotland begon met het planten van 100 zaailingen...
📰 @theguardian.com
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
📰 @theguardian.com
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
A mecca for rewilders: the community-led project restoring Scotland’s southern uplands
Established 24 years ago, the Carrifran Wildwood has been credited with inspiring the current surge of rewilding projects across the UK and beyond
www.theguardian.com
April 19, 2025 at 11:35 AM
Dit project in Schotland begon met het planten van 100 zaailingen...
📰 @theguardian.com
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
📰 @theguardian.com
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
On day 3 of our July 2025 conference you have a choice between two excursions! If you’re after a full day adventure, come with us to visit to the Carrifran Wildwood.
Since 2000 over 750,000 native trees have been planted in the valley 🌳
www.landscape-ecology.uk/uk-conferenc...
#ecology #landscape
Since 2000 over 750,000 native trees have been planted in the valley 🌳
www.landscape-ecology.uk/uk-conferenc...
#ecology #landscape
March 5, 2025 at 7:45 PM
On day 3 of our July 2025 conference you have a choice between two excursions! If you’re after a full day adventure, come with us to visit to the Carrifran Wildwood.
Since 2000 over 750,000 native trees have been planted in the valley 🌳
www.landscape-ecology.uk/uk-conferenc...
#ecology #landscape
Since 2000 over 750,000 native trees have been planted in the valley 🌳
www.landscape-ecology.uk/uk-conferenc...
#ecology #landscape
A mecca for rewilders: the community-led project restoring Scotland’s southern uplands
A mecca for rewilders: the community-led project restoring Scotland’s southern uplands
Established 24 years ago, the Carrifran Wildwood has been credited with inspiring the current surge of rewilding projects across the UK and beyond
www.theguardian.com
March 20, 2024 at 8:04 PM
A mecca for rewilders: the community-led project restoring Scotland’s southern uplands
Rewilding in Scotland
"Carrifran is one of the seeds that this movement has grown from. It is a reminder of how meaningful change usually unfolds in practice: pioneers must first challenge the status quo, then, gradually, momentum can build."
"Carrifran is one of the seeds that this movement has grown from. It is a reminder of how meaningful change usually unfolds in practice: pioneers must first challenge the status quo, then, gradually, momentum can build."
A mecca for rewilders: the community-led project restoring Scotland’s southern uplands
Established 24 years ago, the Carrifran Wildwood has been credited with inspiring the current surge of rewilding projects across the UK and beyond
www.theguardian.com
March 25, 2024 at 12:29 PM
Rewilding in Scotland
"Carrifran is one of the seeds that this movement has grown from. It is a reminder of how meaningful change usually unfolds in practice: pioneers must first challenge the status quo, then, gradually, momentum can build."
"Carrifran is one of the seeds that this movement has grown from. It is a reminder of how meaningful change usually unfolds in practice: pioneers must first challenge the status quo, then, gradually, momentum can build."