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| Two examples of Pine tree in Scotland: (L) Cairngorns and (R) Perthshire. 漏 Michael Scott |
Caledonian Pine
Michael Scott looks into why the future of the Caledonian pinewood is not totally secure.
Caledonian Pine woodland once covered vast areas of Scotland but now it is reduced to less than 1% of its former range. Plans are now afoot to expand it and link up the isolated pockets that are left.
This will be wonderful habitat for capercaillie, an iconic Scottish bird, which is now critically endangered. But not everyone is happy to see trees expanding over heather moor, an important habitat in itself and economically important for grouse shooting.
Another problem is that deer will have to be heavily culled to allow young trees to grow and the sporting estates in Scotland that rely stalking are worried that they will lose out.
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