by Mitch Tarbit | Jun 11, 2024 | News
My name is Mitch and I am a 23 year old young man from the Lake District who has been living in the FHT Shepherd’s Hut and volunteering for the charity for the last two months. I would like to share with you a little of my positive journey over the last couple of...
by Jonathan Caddy | Jun 11, 2024 | News
It has been another whirlwind spring season as far as the Findhorn Hinterland Trust and the various activities on the land go. The ‘When the Bough Breaks’ film, which starred our trustee Alan Watson Featherstone and the rewilding work he was previously involved in...
by Kajedo Wanderer | Jun 11, 2024 | News
It’s a damp day out there – so perfect for spending some time writing for our Newsletter… The trees we planted on the land last autumn and this spring are celebrating the life-giving rain after the warm sunny weeks we’ve just had. The transformation out there at...
by Hugh Andrews | Jun 11, 2024 | News
This one day workshop was held on the 1st June 2024 with 10 participants attending including Hugh Andrews who submitted this article. There was much praise by all for this event – so much so that they wanted to encourage others to make a note and join when it...
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...
