“we want to plant more trees”

Over centuries, we’ve profoundly changed Scotland’s rivers – pacifying them and bringing them under our control. We’ve felled native woodlands to ‘tidy’ riverbanks, disconnected watercourses from thei

The public outcry that swept the nation after the mindless destruction of the world-famous Sycamore Gap tree that had stood for 150 years in a dramatic dip of Hadrian’s Wall showed just how much we ca

On Scotland’s western edge, the Isle of Skye is a timeless haven of windswept cliffs, dramatic landscapes, legends and enduring spirit

Photographer Helen Iles revisits Ynys Enlli for a few days of seal watching and star shooting. She finds much had been left unchanged on this ‘Island in the Currents’ as she volunteers to protect its ways from the wild elements that encircle it

Home to a veritable ‘Noah’s Ark of species’, thanks to never being ploughed, sprayed or fertilised, our churchyards are a sacred haven for flora and fauna

PHOTOGRAPHS BY DEAN HEARNE Ella McLachlan arrived ...