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Planning for Nature Recovery – LBAP

When you go for a walk through our Hinterland, what do you see? Ash Balderson, former Gardens & Grounds Lead for the Findhorn Foundation, suggests you look closely: there’s more than meets the eye. Then, ecologist Sean Reed explains that he’ll be reviewing the FHT’s five-year Local Biodiversity Action Plan (LBAP). FROM ASH: Aside from the […]

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Green burials: how does the climate impact compare?

Green burials not only feel like a most natural farewell, their environmental impact is a fraction of more traditional methods. Laura Sheenan, funeral co-ordinator on the FHT’s green burial team, investigated the climate impact of the four main methods – here’s how the research stacks up. Recently I was asked about the climate impacts of […]

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What a buzz! Visiting the bees

Joy, wonder and magic – that’s what FHT member Gina Pattisson and her two children experienced on a Spring tour of our beehives. ‘It left us buzzing with excitement and stories for weeks! By Gina Pattisson Spring break is always a wonderful time to have the kids off school and be out ‘in nature’. However, […]

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News from the Land – May 2025

Nature is busy earlier than normal in an unusually dry spell: is this climate change in real time? Our regular update from the Findhorn Hinterland Trust’s land manager, Kajedo Wanderer.  More than four weeks of sunshine – in the North of Scotland – what a way to go seamlessly from spring to summer. ‘Who needs […]

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Meet the team: Kajedo Wanderer

Land manager Kajedo Wanderer likes to spend his days in church – which for him is the woods. He has the distinction of being the only person employed by FHT to work directly on the land. ‘And I love my work,’ he adds. My professional background is as a forester in Germany. I chose that […]

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Conservation alongside human homes in the Ecovillage Settlement

Duneland Ltd has always put nature conservation at the heart of its developments. Now, as building is completed and the company winds down, it is handing the baton to the Findhorn Hinterland Trust to continue its good work. In 1997 Duneland Ltd acquired the 400+ acre Wilkie Estate. As well as reserving about seven percent […]

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Caring for Lichens in our Local Environment

Report on Translocation Experiments at Findhorn What follows is an important report by local lichenologist Heather Paul on experiments to mitigate the effects of development at the Park Ecovillage Findhorn involving translocation (physical movement from the development site to a suitable area out of harm’s way) of some species, particularly the rare Matt Felt Lichen […]

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News from the Land

Much has happened on the land since I last wrote for our newsletter. Our settlement keeps expanding – a new, exciting stage of building more homes, the Duneridge project – has just begun. Most of the more dramatic changes have been written about by those more directly involved, for example the dunes restoration project. This […]

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Meet the team: Laura Shreenan

A big part of the Hinterland Trust’s work is our Green Burial Ground in Wilkies Wood, right next to the Park, and Laura is a key person in the Green Burials team. The site was created when a severe storm felled a large area of trees, and now it’s a space for around 120 lairs. […]

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Lichen spotting – at 50 miles

Rare lichens, remote research and AI habitat mapping – how new technologies are making conservation more efficient. Ecologist James Bunyan is closely examining a small patch of lichen on the dunes just outside Findhorn. That’s remarkable for two reasons: first, that some of these lichens are found in only a few other places in the […]

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