Artist name: Jacob Dykes

Image: Neil Sutherland, 19, Ranger.

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The Scottish Highlands were once covered by ‘The Great Forest of Caledonia’ – a lost wilderness, once home to wolves, bears and lynx; the timber cleared for industry and agriculture. The loss of predatory control, combined with sporting tradition, has seen Scotland’s deer numbers grow unchecked. Today, their browsing of tree saplings limits natural forest regeneration.

Alladale Wilderness Reserve is ‘rewilding’ 23,000 acres in the Scottish Highlands. Over one million native trees have been replanted; carbon sinks have been restored; red squirrel and eagle numbers have soared; wolves may one day be reintroduced.

To protect tree saplings, Neil and his team must cull high numbers of deer. For now, their vision of self-regulating nature comes with controversial human intervention.

Neil began work at Alladale at 16. He will be in his sixties when replanted saplings reach the height of the old-growth forest that remains.

https://www.jacobdykes.co.uk/