Ecological restoration sites
Forest conservation sites
Wildlife reintroduction sites
Other forest related sites
Other sites relevant to our work
Findhorn Community Ecovillage Project

 

The Wildlands Project
Trees for Life has an informal cooperative partnership with the US-based Wildlands Project, whose mission is to protect and restore the natural heritage of North America through the establishment of a continental-scale connected system of wildlands.

Earth Restoration Service
Closely linked to Trees for Life's Restoring the Earth project, the Earth Restoration Service aims to create a worldwide network of earth restoration projects and to facilitate volunteer and technical assistance to such projects.

Wild Things
A Scottish charity with close links to Trees for Life seeking to encourage a mutually beneficial relationship between individuals, particularly young people, and their natural environment. Their various activities encourage an appreciation of our natural heritage as well as offering the opportunity for active caring custodianship of the natural environment.

Ecological Restoration Sites

An increasing number of ecological restoration projects are now being initiated and developed, both in the UK and in other parts of the world:

Carrifran Wildwood Project
One of those here in Scotland is the Carrifran Wildwood Project, located in the Southern Uplands, near the English border. Inspired in part by our work and vision, this project aims to restore wild native forest to a 600 hectare (1,500 acre) valley in one of the most deforested parts of Scotland. Trees for Life has recently donated £500 to this project, becoming one of the 'Founders of Carrifran', and we look forward to ongoing links between their work and ours.

Lake Pedder
The Lake Pedder project aims to restore a uniquely beautiful lake in the heart of the Tasmanian Wilderness World Heritage Area in Australia. The original lake was flooded by the construction of a hydroelectric dam in 1972, and this site contains details of the project's proposal to return the lake to its natural condition, as a visionary and inspiring start to the new millennium.

Little Green Space
Little Green Space aims to create a network of little green spaces which are as wildlife friendly and environmentally beneficial as possible. Their current project is the Hackney Leys grasslands in the Derwent Valley.

Moor Trees
Moor Trees is a conservation charity working to restore areas of wild and native woodland to Dartmoor in Devon, in the southwest of England. Dartmoor was formerly more forested but now contains only a few tiny fragments of ancient oak woodland. Inspired in part by the work of Trees for Life, the Moor Trees vision is to encourage areas of Dartmoor to return to forest wilderness.

RESTORE: The North Woods
An American organisation we've been put in touch with is RESTORE: The North Woods, which is working for the protection and restoration of the forests of the northeastern USA and southeastern Canada. Their vision and work parallels our own in many ways, and includes proposals for the reintroduction of wolves to their former range in the northeast of the USA.

Yellowstone to Yukon Conservation Initiative
The Yellowstone to Yukon Conservation Initiative or Y2Y is a joint Canada- US network of over 800 organizations and individiuals interested in restoring and maintaining the Yellowstone to Yukon region. The group works with local communities, through education and stewardship programs, to encourage conservation of the area. The broad goal of the project is to create a life-sustaining web of protected wildlife cores and connecting wildlife movement corridors.

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Forest Conservation Sites

The Alaska Rainforest Campaign
The Alaska Rainforest Campaign is a coalition of national and local conservation organisations working for the protection and restoration of Alaska's temperate rainforest, and their site includes extensive information about the rainforest, logging etc.

Asociación Nacional para la Conservación de la Naturaleza (ANCON)
ANCON is the main conservation organisation in Panama, and this site provides details of their work to protect the rainforests, marine ecosystems and wildlife there. It also includes information about Panama's national parks, and profiles of some of the country's endanagered species.

Australian Rainforest Conservation Society
This site provides information about the work of the Australian Rainforest Conservation Society, which aims, through research, lobbying, public education and grass roots support, to protect, repair and restore the rainforests of Australia.

Conservation International
Conservation International is working to protect tropical rainforest ecosystems in 10 key 'hot spot' areas of the world. This site details their distinctive approach to conservation and also includes information about some of the areas where they're working.

Daintree Rainforest Rescue
The Daintree is a small area of lowland tropical rainforest in northern Queensland, Australia. This site contains information about the high diversity of plant families there (which includes the world's most primitive flowering plant), and details of the threats the area faces from real estate development and the installation of mains electricity.

Earth First! Journal
This site features articles from the journal of Earth First!, the radical environmental movement, covering subjects such as the preservation of biological diversity and wilderness rehabilitation, visionary wilderness proposals and essays exploring Deep Ecology topics.

Friends of Clayoquot Sound
This site provides information on the goals and work of Friends of Clayoquot Sound, an organisation working to protect and defend the ancient temperate rainforests of Clayoquot Sound on Canada's Vancouver Island, which are highly endangered by industrial logging.

Gaia Forest Conservation Portal
This site features a vast range of information concerning rainforest and biodiversity conservation and management around the world, with extensive materials from Papua New Guinea, Brazil, Canada, America, Malaysia, Russia, and over a dozen other countries/regions.

Global Canopy Programme
The Global Canopy Programme seeks to link existing and new projects studying the world's forest canopies, which may contain half of all the species on Earth, into one integrated global programme of research, education and conservation. The programme will throw new light on the critical role of forest canopies in biodiversity and climate change, and it also aims to identify societal benefits from forest canopies, including non-timber forest products, healthcare and eco-tourism.

Headwaters Forest
Headwaters Forest is the largest remaining unprotected old growth redwood forest in the world, located on the northern California coast. This site includes information and photographs of the forest, details of the threats it faces from logging and of the campaign for its protection.

Rainforest Action Network
The Rainforest Action Network's excellent Web site includes a wealth of information, such as details of their campaigns on behalf of the world's rainforests, action alerts about specific areas, RAN's, details of how each person can help and a children's section about rainforests.

Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute (STRI)
This site provides details about the work and research programmes of the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute in Panama, one of the world's leading centres for investigation into the ecology of tropical rainforest ecosystems.

Society for Ecological Restoration (SER)
This site is about the work of the Society for Ecological Restoration, whose mission is to promote ecological restoration as a means of sustaining the diversity of life on Earth and re-establishing an ecologically healthy relationship between nature and culture.

Southeast Alaska Conservation Council
This site is about the Tongass National Forest in Alaska, one of the best examples of temperate coastal rainforest remaining in the world. Information includes the massive logging operations taking place there, and the efforts of conservation groups to get more of the area protected.

Taiga Rescue Network
The Taiga Rsecue Network works for the conservation of the northern boreal forests of the world, and their site contains information about their campaigns, both for specific areas, and to promote ecologically-sustainable forestry in general.

Walbran Valley
The Walbran Valley is a small endangered rainforest on the southern coast of Vancouver Island in Canada. The site contains information about the area and the effects of logging there.

UNEP World Conservation Monitoring Centre
This site has several conservation databases, containing information on protected areas of the world and endangered species. It also includes WCMC's Forest Information Service which has data and maps available on-line about forests, their diversity and conservation status worldwide.

World Wide Rainforest Report
This is an electronically-networked version of the Rainforest Information Centre in Australia's quarterly Report on the state of the world's forests and forest people, with the added depth of spiritual, philosophical and ethical explorations of issues relevant to the environmental movement.

WWF's Forest for Life Programme
This site forms part of the World Wide Fund for Nature's vast information resource on the Web, and features WWF's campaign for the forests of the world, including details of the global loss of forests, and the effects of the international timber trade.

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Wildlife reintroduction sites

Scottish Beavers Network
The Scottish Beaver Network is a small group of landowners, ecologists, wildlife managers, photographers, tourist operators and wildlife enthusiasts who are enthusiastic about seeing beavers restored to Scotland as soon as possible. Their web site provides information about European beavers and beaver reintroductions.

Reintroduction of Beaver in Sweden
This site contains a summary of the successful programme of beaver reintroduction in Sweden, which began with 80 beavers being brought from Norway between 1922 and 1939, and 70 years later resulted in a Swedish beaver population estimated at 100,000.

Beavers at Aigas, Scotland
In April 2006 a pair of Eurasian beavers were released into an enclosure on the loch at Aigas. They have since built a lodge and bred.

Tooth and Claw
An independent project profiling Britain's predators and our fascination with them and also the most comprehensive survey on how people really feel about predators.

Large Carnivore Initiative for Europe
The Large Carnivore Initiative for Europe (LCIE) is a network of European organisations and experts from 25 countries working to secure viable populations of large carnivores in coexistence with people. Their web site provides the latest news and information about brown bears, wolves, lynxes and wolverines in Europe.

The Alladale Wilderness Reserve
The Alladale Estate is an hour north of Inverness. In the wilderness reserve, they are planning controlled releases of bear and wolves into their natural habitat.

Reintroduction of the European Lynx (Lynx lynx) in Poland
This site contains details of the reintroduction of European lynx to the Kampinoski National Park, near Warsaw in Poland in the 1990s. It also includes breif summaries of the reintroduction of European beaver, European bison and elk to the same area.

Wolf Trust
Wolf Trust promotes the reintroduction and recovery of wolves in the Scottish Highlands, and this site includes an analysis of why, where and how wolves could be returned to their former habitat in Scotland.

Wolves and Humans Foundation
A charity dedicated to helping conservation of wolves, as well as bears and lynx, by finding solutions to the problems of living alongside people, through practical measures, education and research. Their site includes pages detailing the history of the wolf in the UK, and exploring the issues surrounding the possible reintroduction of wolves to the Highlands of Scotland.

Wolf Watch UK
Wolf Watch UK is working to promote the conservation of wolves, and specifically to establish a Wolf Conservation/Education Centre with research facilities, which will be the first of its kind in the UK.

UK Wolf Conservation Trust
The UK Wolf Conservation Trust is a non-profit organisation created to promote wolf conservation through education.

International Wolf Center
Based in Minnesota, USA, the International Wolf Center is the world's leading wolf research organisation. Their site includes extensive information about wolves, and about the status of the species in the USA, as well as various photographs and sounds of wolves.

Idaho wolf reintroduction
This site features an extensive overview and history of the wolves which were reintroduced to Idaho in the USA in 1995.

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Other forest related sites

Envirolink

The Eternal Forest Trust
The Eternal Forest Trust is a charity that nurtures life within woodlands, helping everyone to celebrate nature, including the disabled and young people. The Trust, based on the Lleyn Peninsula in North Wales, offers woodland burials and dedicates plots and trees in memoriam and in celebration.

Forest Action Network

Forest Watch

Global Response

Good Green Fun! - Children's Music and Rainforest Ecology

Goodleaf Recreational Tree Climbing, Isle of Wight

Philippine Reef and Rainforest Project

Rainforest Conservation Fund

Rainforests.net

Tree Aid

Trossachs Fishing - See Ospreys at Loch Venachar

WWF

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Other sites relevant to our work

Strathglass Community website
Strathglass is adjacent to some of the main areas where we work, such as Glen Affric, and this website has information about the local area, its visitor attractions, accommodation etc.

Green Health - Doing Our Bit to Save the Planet
Suggestions for changes we can make in our daily living so that we can help by "living simply so that others may simply live".

BANC, the British Association of Nature Conservationists
BANC is an independent network of conservation practitioners, academics and interested individuals, which takes a critical look at the world of nature conservation. They analyse what's going on, debate the values behind conservation policies and legislation, and put new ideas on the agenda.

Ways to slow down Climate Change
from http://www.preventclimatechange.co.uk/

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Reciprocal links

Greenbox
Ecotourism in Ireland

New Green Consumer
The official online companion to The New Green Consumer Guide, published on 21 May 2006.

Photinia
Shop online for trees, hedging, topiary and shrubs.

Scotland Holidays
Scotland Travel allows to you to build a wonderful Scottish holiday. Book accommodation online, day trips and tours around Scotland.

Stone Lane Gardens: Sculpture Exhibition, Arboretum & Nursery
5 acre arboretum holding important National Collections of Birch and Alder trees in a landscaped water & woodland setting. We are situated in the Dartmoor National Park, Devon.

Trees of Light
Bringing peace and light to the earth with specially nurtured trees and shrubs.

Wildflower Photography by Peter J. Hosey
Photographs of flowers, landscapes, fungi, leaves and seeds/berries.

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Findhorn Community Ecovillage Project

Trees for Life has its main base in the Findhorn Bay Community, which is the site of a prominent and evolving Ecovillage project.

Findhorn Ecovillage: building alliances for a sustainable future
The Findhorn Community Ecovillage Project - Building alliances for a sustainable future. We are a demonstration project for sustainable human community in the north of Scotland and have been in existence for nearly 40 years. We are interested in linking with like minded groups and organisations to build a positive future for all.

Meet your Greens
Personal ads for those with a green/holistic approach to life. Connect with other men and women who care about people, nature and the earth. First 6 months of Full Membership is free.

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