by Alan Watson Featherstone | Mar 20, 2026 | Conservation, Ecology, Ecology & Conservation, News
In recent months we’ve been drawing up a Local Biodiversity Action Plan (LBAP) for the land that the Findhorn Hinterland Trust is responsible for. This has been drafted primarily by local ecologist Sean Reed, who we work closely with, and with input from various FHT...
by Alan Watson Featherstone | Nov 27, 2025 | News
A new species of springtail seen for the first time, magnificent and unique fungi, plus a lesson in camouflage from a wolf spider – these are some of the finds in the lens of Alan Watson Featherstone.By Alan Watson FeatherstoneAlthough we’re moving into the more...
by Alan Watson Featherstone | Sep 4, 2025 | News
From a couple of linnets, a ‘zombifying’ fungus and fly that’s been recorded only twice in Scotland so far, there have been some significant biodiversity discoveries in the Hinterland this summer. As part of my role as the charity’s Land Trustee, I carry out detailed...
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 Alan Watson Featherstone | Feb 23, 2024 | News
by Alan Watson Featherstone | Nov 25, 2023 | Ecology, Ecology & Conservation, News
As part of the Findhorn Hinterland Trust’s ongoing work to identify the biological diversity that occurs on the 35 hectares of land that we are responsible for managing, we commissioned a survey of the true bugs, or Hemiptera, and barkflies, or Psocoptera, on the site...
by Alan Watson Featherstone | Feb 19, 2023 | Ecology, Ecology & Conservation, News
As part of the Findhorn Hinterland Trust’s work to identify the biological diversity that occurs on the 35 hectares of land that we are responsible for managing, I commissioned a spider survey of the site, which took place between the end of April 2019 and the end of...
by Alan Watson Featherstone | Sep 28, 2022 | News
With the warmer than normal summer weather we’ve had here at Findhorn this year, it has been an unusual and different season for biodiversity, and especially insects, on the Hinterland area. For example, one of my main insect groups of interest – aphids – have been...
by Alan Watson Featherstone | May 30, 2022 | News
Enjoy this short video with Alan sharing about this uique retreat. To book your place please click here.
by Alan Watson Featherstone | May 25, 2022 | Ecology, Ecology & Conservation, News
In much of our modern day world, the conventional view of dead wood is often that it is unsightly, untidy and a waste if it is left lying around in a woodland, and that it should be tidied up, taken away and used for some human purpose. Sadly, this reflects a lack of...
by Alan Watson Featherstone | Mar 9, 2022 | News
On the night of Friday 26th-Saturday 27th November 2021, a major storm, called Storm Arwen by meteorologists, hit the east coast of Scotland with very strong winds of up to 90 mph. Unusually, the wind direction came from the northeast (most of the country’s stormy...
by Alan Watson Featherstone | Dec 1, 2021 | Ecology, Ecology & Conservation, News
As part of our work to identify the biodiversity of the Findhorn Hinterland area we commissioned Liz Holden, Scotland’s leading mycologist, to carry out a survey of the fungi that are present on the site. She spent two days on the Hinterland in 2020, at the beginning...
