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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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. […]
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 […]
It seems a long time since our winter gathering event at the Woodland Shelter, when a good crowd coalesced around the fire collecting Christmas trees, and the other event around that time, when Santa Claus was once again installed in the Conservation Hub as part of the Christmas trail put on by Laura Pasetti and […]
Autumn on the land has been beautiful with the seasonal change of colours and fungi making their presence known with their fruiting bodies once again present to our eyes – the natural world has been busy and so have the FHT human team with so much going on. This busyness was particularly evident during our […]
At the beginning of October I was delighted to attend the annual Community Woodland Association conference in Inverness representing the Hinterland with Jonathan. The CWA (if, like me, you didn’t already know) promotes, supports and celebrates community woodlands across the whole of Scotland – and beyond. Their ethos is that ‘every community deserves a woodland’ […]
It has taken over a year of planning, fundraising, connecting with other organisations and similar projects, gathering and reading background material, disseminating information to raise public awareness, writing articles, organising information sharing events and simply thinking about our Dune Restoration project. It is with a great feeling of relief and pride that on Wednesday 20th November we finally finished the first phase – converting 0.8ha of dense gorse back to open sand dunes.
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The Findhorn Hinterland Trust (FHT) is a charity (SC045806) set up as a SCIO (Scottish Charitable Incorporated Organisation) in July 2015 and as such is regulated by OSCR (Office of Scottish Charities Register). (more...)
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 […]