Weekly News

We are part way through a major project in the south of Scotland, assessing the abundance and distribution of Fallow deer Dama Dama. Much of our work involves surveying upland sites, and most of these sites have Roe, Sika or Red deer present – working with Fallow deer again in Lowland woodland has been really interesting, having worked often with them in the past and having spent a lot of…

We are currently involved in a major strategic deer management planning project in the Highlands. Part of the work involves meeting each of the landowners (and often also their stalkers and agents) to learn about how each estate works, in order that an overview of the whole area can be obtained. It has been really fascinating learning about each area, and realising how diverse the landholdings and the management objectives…

We began a really interesting project this month assessing the potential to restore active blanket bog on three sites in Lanarkshire.  Two are currently afforested and one is an old peat extraction site.  The sites are all very different, and it has been a really useful exercise being able to compare and contrast them in the initial part of the study.  We plan to develop costed peatland restoration management plans…