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Rachel meets Peter Livingstone, who has spent a decade campaigning to save the Aspen tree. Thanks to his hard work, numbers of Aspen in Renfrewshire have grown from single digits to thousands. He shows Rachel his nursery near Bishopton.

Andrew O'Donnell is a natural history film maker and musician who records under the moniker of Beluga Lagoon. In this week鈥檚 Scotland Outdoors podcast, Maud Start meets up with Andrew on a river bank. We hear an excerpt where they watch dippers and talk about the nature themes in his music.

Last week on Out of Doors we heard about how busy the island of Skye is all year round with tourists. While Mark was visiting, he took time to seek out a quieter style of tour with Mark Purrett from Skye Geography Tours. He took Mark to a less popular location and told him about the geography of the island.

It鈥檚 osprey watching season. and as always, there have been highs and lows at the various nesting sites around the country. Rachel visits the RSPB鈥檚 Loch Garten where they have had no shortage of drama this year. Ranger Jess Tomes tells her more.

You might remember a few months ago, Mark went for a walk with Dr Kat Jones, director of Action to Protect Rural Scotland, who had undertaken a challenge to walk Glasgow鈥檚 Greenbelt. Well, she鈥檚 just completed her walks, so Mark went back to catch up with her to find out how it had gone.

Later this year the 大象传媒 Food and Farming Awards will be held in Scotland. And here on Out of Doors, alongside our TV colleagues at Landward, we are launching The 大象传媒 Scotland Local Food Hero award. Joining us to tell us more is presenter of Radio 4鈥檚 Food Programme, Sheila Dillon.

Rachel is back at the Scottish Wildlife Trust鈥檚 Rahoy Nature Reserve where ranger Steve Hardy lets her listen to some of the recordings he鈥檚 made of the amazing wildlife that makes its home in Rahoy.

We catch up with the incredible Ethan Walker, who just nine months after suffering horrific injuries when he was hit by a car, is cycling to Munich for Euro 2024. We chat to Ethan live to see how far he鈥檚 managed to travel in a week.

And as the country marks the 80th Anniversary of the D-Day landings, Mark is in Garlieston in Dumfries and Galloway where crucial parts of the invasion infrastructure were tested.

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