by Adelle Horler | Jun 1, 2025 | News
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...
by Eian Smith | Mar 16, 2025 | News
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...
by DigiRoutes | Mar 15, 2025 | News
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...
by Kajedo Wanderer | Mar 15, 2025 | News
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...
by Adelle Horler | Mar 15, 2025 | News
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...
by Adelle Horler | Mar 15, 2025 | News
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...
by DigiRoutes | Mar 15, 2025 | News
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...
by Jonathan Caddy | Dec 17, 2024 | News
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. ...
by Ash Balderstone | Dec 17, 2024 | News
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...
by Sean Reed | Dec 17, 2024 | News
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...