JOURNEY IN LANDSCAPE RESTORATION (CARRIFRAN)

Carrifran Wildwood near Moffat is the brainchild of local people who mourned the absence of natural habitats and decided to act themselves. In their own words, they describe how 20 years' work removing sheep, cattle and feral goats, and planting 700,000 trees, has resulted in the transformation of degraded hill land which now teems with plants, animals, fungi and mosses, many of them newly-recorded in the area. The book concludes by discussing the role of restoration ecology in addressing the biodiversity crisis and climate change.