“they really are quite extraordinary places”

Mountain ecosystems across the world are under threat – but the people who love them are fighting back. Hanna Lindon meets the hillwalking heroes using their outdoor skills for positive change

Documentary photographer Richard Cross rises above the shortbread tin romanticism that colours so much of our outdoor heritage, with the perspective provided by drone photography applied to land use issues of our day

It’s dark. The footage is grainy but you can see the silhouette of a tree with a horizon line swooping behind it. At the tree’s foot is a shadow, which unfurls into a man-shape. A chainsaw snarls into

MANY people mistakenly assume that the windswept islands of the Scottish Hebrides are mostly treeless. That’s a misconception – and if you don’t believe me, just ask the inhabitants of the small islan

The pine marten may have a taste for jam sandwiches, but its razor-sharp claws and appetite for eggs and grey squirrels makes it a predatory force to be reckoned with, says Patrick Galbraith

Native trees hold a special place in the UK’s traditions, myths and ecosystems