SCO News May 2020

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GREEN TEAM UPDATE

KEEPING IT GREEN BY SCO CELLO DONALD GILLAN

At a recent SCO Green Team committee

examples are the Black Wood of

meeting it was proposed that we should

Rannoch, Rothiemurchus and Aberbethy

consider supporting an environmental

in Speyside and part of Glen Affric.

charity with the intention of having trees planted to ‘carbon offset’ the

Glen Affric is at the heart of the TFL

impact of SCO touring.

target area which is a huge area of roadless mountain, glen and barren

I was delighted when someone

moorland to the west of Loch Ness,

suggested that Trees For Life might

stretching all the way to the sea on the

be a suitable charity to support as I

West Coast. TFL’s vision is holistic: the

have been an enthusiastic supporter

return of the forest including not just

of TFL for many years. The mission of

trees but also the various extirpated

TFL, founded in 1989, is to restore the

species of animals such as lynx, beaver

Caledonian Forest to a large area of the

and boar, and more controversially, wolf,

Highlands of Scotland. The Caledonian

whilst simultaneously enriching human

Forest, a vast primeval mixed woodland

lives with healthy wild nature. The dream

once clothed most of the Highlands, but

of wolves roaming the glens of Scotland

has been reduced over the centuries

is a long way off and may never happen,

to a few scattered remnants. Notable

however the reintroduction of Red


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