Durrell Wildlife Conservation Trust - Scotland

About

Advancement of environmental protection through the implementation and maintenance of ecological restoration projects to recover ecosystem function and resilience in the landscape, habitat improvement for wildlife, species recovery, and in future education, training and research activities. This will be focussed on Dalnacardoch estate and the restoration of the land through rivers, peatland and woodland. The current focus is on surveying and baselining various ecological factors on the land including tree regeneration transect surveys, insect and weather monitoring. Deer management is also a priority, as the reduction and control of deer numbers is critical in allowing natural regeneration of the land to take place. In addition to this, there are aims to work on conservation of wildlife and public promotion of conservation and wild spaces. m nature restoration and how these can be delivered.

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