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Regeneration The Rescue of a Wild Land

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REGENERATION The Rescue of a Wild Land

Andrew Painting

Publication Date: 18th March 2021

In 1995 the National Trust for Scotland acquired Mar Lodge Estate in the heart of the Cairngorms. Home to over 5,000
species, this vast expanse of Caledonian woodlands, subarctic mountains, bogs, moors, roaring burns and frozen lochs
could be a place where environmental conservation and Highland field sports would exist in harmony. The only problem
was that due to centuries of abuse by human hands, the ancient Caledonian pinewoods were dying, and it would take
radical measures to save them.


After 25 years of extremely hard work, the pinewoods, bogs, moors and mountains are returning to their former glory.
Regeneration is the story of this success, featuring not only the people who are protecting the land and quietly working to
undo the wrongs of the past, but also the myriad creatures which inspire them to do so.


In addition, it also tackles current controversies such as raptor persecution, deer management and rewilding and asks
bigger questions about the nature of conservation itself: what do we see when we look at our wild places? What should
we see?

Andrew Painting grew up in the south of England and studied English at King’s College, London and Environmental
Anthropology at Aberdeen University. He moved to Scotland to volunteer with the RSPB and was the Assistant Ecologist at the Mar Lodge Estate.

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