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
5791
hectares
Pinewood field layer grazed or cut
1122
hectares
Scots pine plantation restructuring
1914
hectares
Staff employed across the partnership
60+
full time equivalent
Deer management across the entire area
60000
hectares
Peatland restoration
1184.5
hectares
Floodplain restoration
20
hectares
New native woodland planted
1253
hectares
Endangered Landscapes & Seascapes Programme funding spent locally
£1929845
Illustrations by Holly Acland
Between 2021 and 2024, Cairngorms Connect collaborated with artists Elizabeth Reeder and Amanda Thomson and local communities, to create a Commonplace Book for the Cairngorms.
Within the pages of a black pocket-sized notebook, Ellie Dimambro-Denson’s detailed sketches and field notes transport us to south-west Norway as part of the research fellowship she completed there in summer 2023, funded by the Future of UK Treescapes.
