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Meet the island community that saved an ancient sheep Members only Members only
In 1971, a boatful of feral sheep was transported from St Kilda to the Scottish mainland. Their descendants then vanished. This is the story of the Lost Flock – and the Orkney residents who saved their primitive genes.
Wolf watching in the Scottish Highlands in 2044 Members only Members only
Matthew Hay takes a trip into the future to watch wolves in the snowless Cairngorms, a decade after their reintroduction to the Highlands.
'An Orkney Miracle Drink': How wildflowers heal us, inside and out Members only Members only
In 2022, Victoria Bennett left her apothecary garden in Cumbria to start anew on Orkney. In the accounts of old botanists, she began to learn a new language of flowers.
The ancient crop providing hope to islanders – and humanity Members only Members only
Adam Weymouth visits the Outer Hebrides to learn about bere barley, a Bronze Age crop that is helping farmers adapt to climate change and resist depopulation.
How to eat like a Climavore Members only Members only
The Climavore diet is a way of eating that responds to the specific challenges of the local environment. The concept is gathering steam.
‘Storm worse than ever today’: how schoolteachers tracked weather in the Outer Hebrides Members only Members only
School logbooks from the nineteenth century reveal how islanders coped with a period of particularly stormy weather. In their resilience is a lesson for the future.
'The life of an animal is not an experiment' Members only Members only
Seven years ago, as research for her book, Louise Gray learned how to stalk deer. She explains here why that kill was never going to be one-off event.
A journey through the Cairngorms – and through time Members only Members only
The naturalist Seton Gordon chronicled the changing landscapes of the Highlands. His books show how far ecological baselines have shifted over the past hundred years.
