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.
Non-native conifer removal
8219
hectares
Pinewood field layer grazed or cut
1632
hectares
Scots pine plantation restructuring
2275
hectares
Staff employed across the partnership
60+
full time equivalent
Deer management across the entire area
60000
hectares
Peatland restoration
1539.5
hectares
Floodplain restoration
79
hectares
New native woodland planted
1360
hectares
Endangered Landscapes & Seascapes Programme funding spent locally
£2912082.83
Illustrations by Holly Acland
Rosie Beetschen joins a day of Seed Establishment Trials in the beautiful and remote Strath Nethy to learn about how Cairngorms Connect are working to grow and expand our native forests
Rosie Beetschen reflects on the Cairngorms Connect Community Conference earlier this month, and an amazing year of projects, fieldwork and volunteering
