Highlands Rewilding

Healthy forests start from the ground up! 🌱🌳 As we work to restore Scotland’s precious Atlantic rainforest, we know that trees alone don’t make a forest—it all begins with the soil beneath our feet. Soil health is the foundation of any successful rewilding project. Detailed soil surveys before planting, ensure we choose the right trees for the right places. By understanding soil composition, moisture levels, and nutrient availability, we can help forests grow stronger and more resilient in a changing climate. In this video, Keir Smith, Director of Estate Operations, explains how this vital research is shaping our restoration work. These efforts are part of a wider vision to bring back Scotland’s temperate rainforest. On International Day of Forests, we’re celebrating not just trees, but the deep-rooted science and careful planning that makes large-scale rewilding possible. Healthy soil, healthy forests, healthy planet. 🌍💚 #ForestDay #Rewilding #AtlanticRainforest #SoilHealth #EcosystemRestoration #ClimateAction Keir Smith Jeremy Leggett

🌍🌿 Happy World Rewilding Day! 🌿🌍 This year’s theme ‘Rewilding Together’ is at the heart of what we do at Highlands Rewilding. Rewilding isn’t just about landscapes; it’s about the people restoring nature. From restoring temperate rainforest to planting native trees, managing invasive species, and enhancing biodiversity, our team is working every day to bring degraded ecosystems back to life. We’re also incredibly grateful for the volunteers and local communities who help shape and support rewilding on our estates—whether through hands-on restoration, monitoring, or sharing knowledge of the land. Rewilding is most powerful when we do it together. Every action brings us one step closer to a healthier, wilder world. Whether you're restoring land, supporting conservation, or simply sharing awareness—every effort counts. 👉 Watch, share, and join the movement! Let’s rewild together. #WorldRewildingDay #RewildingTogether #HighlandsRewilding #NatureRecovery #ClimateAction #Biodiversity #EcosystemRestoration #CommunityEngagement Rewilding Britain Rewilding Europe The Scottish Rewilding Alliance Global Rewilding Alliance

A tiny triumph for rewilding! 🐜🌿 Last spring, we carefully translocated wood ants to help restore ecosystem balance on Bunloit estate. Many of you followed their journey—now, after a long winter, how have they fared? This update offers a glimpse into the resilience of these vital little ecosystem engineers. Proof that rewilding can work at every level. With World Rewilding Day just around the corner (Thursday!), we’re celebrating the power of nature restoration—big and small. Stay tuned for more throughout the week! 💚 #Rewilding #Biodiversity #EcosystemRestoration #WildScotland #WoodAnts #WorldRewildingDay #RewildingTogether Penelope Whitehorn Rewilding Britain Jeremy Leggett 

Gu h-àrd is gu h-ìosal - Above and Below 🌊🍄 Foraging and Heritage Tours combine coastal foraging 🦪, immersive sea swimming 🏊♂️, a forager’s lunch 🥗, and place-based storytelling 📖. We are delighted to be hosting a series of these immersive experiences at Tayvallich in 2025! Heather, in the video, is an expert foraging guide 🍄, taking small groups out to explore this stunning peninsular and cooking a foraged lunch with local ingredients 🌿🔥. These tours also include an immersive sea swimming experience 🌊, led by wild swimming and nature guide, Dan, discovering the natural wonders of “the coast of the Gael” . With the first trip only a couple of months away, keep an eye on this website 👀 to find out more: 👉 https://lnkd.in/dvYRRWuC 2025 Foraging & Wild Swimming Dates: ✅ Saturday 3rd May ✅ Saturday 7th June ✅ Saturday 26th July ✅ Saturday 9th August ✅ Saturday 4th October #GaelicCulture #WildSwimming #Foraging #rewilding Heathery Heights Outdoor Adventure and Discovery Jeremy Leggett

Spring is in the air! 🌿🦡🔊 Sound on for a glimpse into nocturnal badger life. Our camera traps captured the sights and sounds of the mating season, followed by grass and leaf collection for nest building. A true sign that spring has arrived in the wild! #Badgers #Wildlife #Rewilding #SpringAwakening #NocturnalNature NatureSpy

On #WorldWildlifeDay, it's wonderful to share just some of the extraordinary fauna we have captured on film over the three Highlands Rewilding estates. Even though Scotland is one of the most nature depleted counties in Europe we are lucky enough to have some fantastic wildlife to protect and help restore. #rewilding #nature #wildlife

On #worldseagrassday we celebrate the fantastic carbon capture quality of #seagrass. Did you know a hectare of seagrass will trap carbon up to 35% quicker than a hectare of rainforest? 🤔 David Smyth, marine rewilding lead at Highlands Rewilding, explores how this habitat supports a high level of biodiversity, acts as a coastal buffer for storms, and can sequester carbon quickly. To find out more about seagrass and marine surveying at Tayvallich, read David’s blog 👉   https://lnkd.in/eTM8KBrQ #marinebiology #diving #rewilding #carboncapture Project Seagrass

New podcast episode! The science behind rewilding, and the economic drivers behind degradation and restoration, with Restore Our Planet ▶️ https://lnkd.in/dfH4igRm Joining Jack Cole, listen to Co-Chief Scientists Penelope Whitehorn and Calum Brown as they dive into the important work we do, and why.  Jeremy Leggett #science #rewilding #nature #biodiversity

🐜 Invertebrates. 🌿 Vegetation. 🦪 Oysters. 🦌 Deer. Explore these research highlights from our latest natural capital report. Across our open-air laboratories, our team is carrying out cutting-edge research and developing nature-based solutions through science-led rewilding. We are baselining biodiversity, aiming to reliably quantify biodiversity change (along with carbon fluxes) and demonstrate how natural capital can be grown verifiably for planet, people and profit. 🗞️ Sign up for our newsletter to keep up to date with our work: https://lnkd.in/eQG8aUFM 📰 Dive into our latest research: https://lnkd.in/dSqw2X_y #research #science #rewilding #nature #deer #oysters #biodiversity #carbon #data Dr Hannah Rudman FBCS FRSA Calum Brown Penelope Whitehorn Cathy Atkinson David Smyth Keir Smith Jeremy Leggett Wellcome Sanger Institute BH Wildlife Consultancy The Leverhulme Centre for Nature Recovery

BlackRock, the world's largest asset manager, has officially recognised that natural capital must be integrated into its investment models. This is important. We are now seeing institutional investors treat nature as an asset rather than as an externality, with BlackRock specifically assessing how companies handle natural capital as part of overall ESG profiles. 🌍This quiet but powerful signal will redefine asset valuations around the world. 🌱 Which other asset managers will move fast to integrate nature-based valuations in their investment strategies?  https://lnkd.in/e9wSPzPt #blackrock #naturalcapital #investing Jeremy Leggett