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| Dead Scots pine, or snag, silhouetted against shafts of sunlight over Gleann na Ciche & Loch Affric |
Trees for Life has launched an initiative to save ancient Scots pines across the Highlands of Scotland from becoming the last generation in a lineage of trees dating back to the last ice age.
Through its Caledonian Pinewood Recovery Project, the conservation charity wants to help restore 50 areas of remnant and neglected pinewoods – mainly made up of lone, ancient ‘Granny’ pines which are over 200 years old but dying as they stand, with no young trees to succeed them.
The fragments – scattered over a large area – face growing threats from overgrazing by deer, tree diseases and climate change, and are at risk of
