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 David Thompkins | Feb 23, 2024 | Conservation, Ecology & Conservation, News
Lessons Learned Working on Another Part of the Greater Findhorn Dunes System Introduction In November 2023, staff from RSPB Scotland invited members of the Findhorn Hinterland Trust and the Findhorn Dunes Trust to the RSPB’s Culbin Sands Nature Reserve for a site...
by Sean Reed | Nov 25, 2023 | Conservation, Ecology & Conservation, News
The Project is moving apace, with a major focus on exploring some potential sources of funding. We are excited to report that the Hinterland Trust is discussing forming a partnership with our neighbour, the Findhorn Dunes Trust, to apply for a grant scheme. We...
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 Jonathan Caddy | Sep 3, 2023 | Conservation, Ecology & Conservation
Maintaining and protecting biodiversity in our world is of international importance and concern and the strategy is to make sure that what happens on the ground in every locality of the earth helps with this mammoth task. To that end FHT commissioned a 2020 Local...
by Christine Lines | Sep 3, 2023 | Ecology, Ecology & Conservation, News
9-10 August 2023 Participants: Chris Wilkinson, Mark Edgeller, Nigel Jones, Robert Kelsh We are a group of keen amateur lepidopterists from across the South of England. For many years we have been keen to visit the Strathspey area of Scotland during late summer to...
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 heather.paul | Dec 4, 2022 | Ecology, Ecology & Conservation, News
Lichens grow all around us- on trees, walls, pebbles and the soil- and yet we often hardly notice them. They paint the world with splashes of colour and patterns. Many are tiny but all are a symbiosis of a fungus and alga living together – along with yeasts and...
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 Paulo Bessa | Mar 9, 2022 | Ecology, Ecology & Conservation, News
Bird species of the Hinterland, Park and Bay Welcome to the fantastic world of birdwatching. People often ask me what kind of bird species are present in our community grounds and the surrounding Hinterland? Well I can tell you that we have about 45 species that have...
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...
by Alan Watson Featherstone | May 13, 2021 | Ecology, Ecology & Conservation, News
By Alan Featherstone Watson This is another of my occasional articles about the biodiversity of the Findhorn Hinterland area, this time about hazel trees in spring. After the snow melted in the middle of February, the warmer weather has really accelerated the coming...
