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Instead of paying landowners to reduce deer density to levels that allow native woodland to regenerate naturally, the public are paying them to plant trees to maintain deer numbers at high levels. | Nick Kempe for Parkswatch Scotland:
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Forestry grants, tree planting and native woodland (1) - 30 years on in Glen Shiel - parkswatchscotland
This is the first in a series of posts which looks at what forestry grants to large landowners to plant trees has done for native woodland in Scotland based mainly on the evidence I have seen on the g...
parkswatchscotland.co.uk
February 13, 2026 at 1:05 PM
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The Scottish Government's £3.3 million forestry grant to Oxygen Conservation at Invergeldie | Nick Kempe for Parkswatch Scotland.
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The Scottish Government's £3.3m forestry grant to Oxygen Conservation at Invergeldie - parkswatchscotland
On Thursday Oxygen Conservation announced (see here) that they have been awarded £3.3m in forestry grants to plant a large chunk of the Invergeldie Estate north of Comrie.  So far Scottish Forestry do...
parkswatchscotland.co.uk
February 7, 2026 at 12:27 PM
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The Scottish Government and Scotland's forestry and natural heritage agencies are continuing to pursue environmentally-damaging neoliberal policies with vigour. ☹️
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Glen Prosen - how Scotland's forestry system is turning opportunity into disaster - parkswatchscotland
In my last post I argued that the Scottish Government should transfer some of the £53m it has allocated for forestry grants next year to its own agency, Forest and Land Scotland, to reduce deer on its...
parkswatchscotland.co.uk
December 22, 2024 at 10:01 AM