16|SCO NEWS
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