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Rewilding in the Scottish Highlands
In the battle between rewilders and traditionalists, the Scottish government is walking on the wild side
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THE PURPLE of the Highlands in early autumn can drive the dourest of Scots to poetry, but Renwick Drysdale, who with his brothers will inherit an estate in Fife, can’t see the landscape as beautiful any more. “Rolling through all these valleys,” he says, should be the “rich, biodiverse woodlands” that were there 5,000 years ago.
This article appeared in the Britain section of the print edition under the headline “In their sights”
Britain October 3rd 2020
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