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...
by Christine Lines | Feb 23, 2024 | News, Recreation
As some of you will know, some 20 years ago my art therapy practice began to morph into a more ‘open door’ style, moving seamlessly or rhythmically across the threshold between the studio interior, garden and local woods, dunes and beach, and then moved to taking...
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 Alan Watson Featherstone | Feb 23, 2024 | News
by Kajedo Wanderer | Nov 26, 2023 | News
‘Be still, and listen…’ (Eileen Caddy) While the rest of the world is warming up at an alarming rate, here in the North of Scotland we’ve had a cool summer and an unusually wet and windy autumn. And now the autumn colours paint the landscapes in various shades of...
by Michael Sharp | Nov 25, 2023 | News
To walk among the sand dunes at Findhorn is to walk in the footsteps of a Mesolithic hunter–gatherer, a Neolithic farmer with axe in hand, a Bronze Age herds-woman, perhaps an Iron Age child, and a soldier training for the D-day landing. This is not immediately...
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...
