Conservationists are working to restore the Caledonian pine forest to boost the country's bio-diversity.

Wolves have been gone from the Scottish Highlands for more than 200 years, and in their absence red deer have proliferated. Researchers say that returning wolves to the Highlands would keep deer in ...

A recent study published in the journal Ecological Solutions and Evidence suggests that reintroducing wolves to the Scottish ...

Scotland was once home to 1.5 million hectares of native Caledonian pinewood. Now only 1% of this life-supporting habitat is left. Elizabeth has worked since 2010 as a writer and consultant covering ...

A Scottish company is helping to regrow forests with specially made mushroom pellets, using the “superpowers” of fungi. Teams from Rhizocore Technologies are collecting samples of fungi from around ...

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Researchers studying exquisitely preserved Scottish fossils say Prototaxites represents an entirely extinct eukaryotic lineage - a “new form of life” in the sense that it does not fit into known major ...