Please support rewilding with a donation to Trees for Life
At Trees for Life, we depend on our global family of supporters to continue rewilding the Scottish Highlands. By donating, you can help us to carry out vital nature restoration work across this incredible part of Scotland.
Nature enriches all our lives. Rewilding is about - and depends upon - people, community and working together. With your help, we can continue to help nature, working in a way that is collaborative, groundbreaking and pragmatic - so that your money has the greatest possible impact.
Donations help us to continue with tree growing, planting and protecting, while also pushing barriers and the status quo when needed. Donations have supported our work to protect beavers from unnecessary harm, to explore the potential of returning lynx to Scotland in close collaboration with Scotland: The Big Picture and the Lifescape Project, to develop ambitious landscape-scale change through Affric Highlands, and to continue creating new populations of red squirrel - these projects together have significant potential to make Scotland’s landscapes, ecosystems, and communities richer and more connected. And of course, through our Rewilding Centre, opening next spring, we can share the beauty and sense of hope that flourishing landscapes create with many more people.
Our tree nursery remains a specialist in species native to the Highlands, growing a wide variety of trees from locally-sourced seed collected by the team. Our work to better understand the enigmatic aspen tree and grow rare montane willows is particularly vital. It has been exciting to work with others in this field, growing and supplying willow for partners in the Cairngorms, exchanging knowledge and experience.
At Dundreggan, Glen Affric, and other sites across the Highlands, our woodland creation work continues. Now that autumn is here, we are again planting at Dundreggan’s Carn na Caorach. At 450 - 600 metres above sea level, Carn na Caorach is a rare high-altitude woodland, a habitat that is today almost entirely lost from the Highlands. As the young forest grows, we can begin to imagine the wildlife that will find sanctuary here - moving through a connected landscape to Glen Affric in the north, and Glenmoriston in the south. Indeed, golden eagles have already made this place home.
Finally, as our Skills for Rewilding programme comes to an end - we are looking to the future, and how we can continue to involve people from all backgrounds in our work and make rewilding more inclusive.
We cannot do any of this without you. Please consider donating our rewilding work today. Thank you.