by Jonathan Caddy | Jun 11, 2024 | News
How did you get so involved in nature and nature conservation? I have had a long history of developing a deep relationship with nature which I think really started in a serious way back when I travelled abroad. In 1972 when I was 18 I travelled in Europe and the...
by Steven Porter | Jun 11, 2024 | News
It’s a short walk from the Conservation Hub up to the dunes on the way into Findhorn Village. That short walk can draw out when you slow down to notice the insects humming and the birds darting for cover past Rowan and Birch into the gorse. At the top of the dune the...
by Jonathan Caddy | Jun 10, 2024 | News
As a well trusted and valued organisation within the Park Ecovillage and the Findhorn/Forres area and beyond, the FHT has much to be grateful for and proud of – its work concerning local practical conservation, opportunities for environmental education, helping...
by Sean Reed | Jun 10, 2024 | News
Thank you to everyone who donated to the Big Give appeal! This enables us to go ahead with the first year of dune restoration work, scheduled for this coming winter. This involves the clearance of around half a hectare of carefully selected gorse, to create new bare...
by Alan Watson Featherstone | Feb 23, 2024 | Conservation, Ecology & Conservation, News
The focus of our Dune Restoration Project The Findhorn Hinterland Trust’s new Dune Restoration Project will be a central and important element of our work for the next few years, and its core purpose is to ensure that there is good habitat on the land that we manage...
by Christine Lines | Feb 23, 2024 | Ecology, Ecology & Conservation, News
Management Recommendations to benefit priority Lepidoptera. Background: The East Coast is home to some of Scotland’s most beautiful and vulnerable flora and fauna, by working together we can help to protect these fragile species. Many of our East Coast sites are a mix...
by Jonathan Caddy | Feb 23, 2024 | News
There have been times of strong winds, snow and ice on the land but now comes the start of some milder and longer days and a hint of warmer weather – spring full of the magic of bird song and new life is beginning to percolate through the air and our minds. It...
by Sean Reed | Feb 23, 2024 | Conservation, Ecology & Conservation, News
We had a very helpful meeting with the RSPB at their Culbin Sands nature reserve in November. Site Manager Steph Elliot and Project Officer David Tompkins showed us the work they are doing to protect threatened sand dune habitats and species through removing scrub...
by Jonathan Caddy | Feb 23, 2024 | News
George is a Scot who lives in Forres with his wife Heather and has been a volunteer for over fifteen years, generously contributing to the land and people of the Findhorn peninsula through his work with the Findhorn Hinterland Trust founded in 2015 and its precursor...
by Kajedo Wanderer | Feb 23, 2024 | News
‘Value the marginal’ – An appreciation of the ‘edges.’ As I write this, it’s still just the middle of Feb, so theoretically still winter. Winter here has been mostly wet & windy with just a week when snow covered everything with a beautiful glistening...
