Support Moorland Life | Case studies
Edinglassie Estate - Aberdeenshire
Edinglassie Estate is a mixed upland livestock farming and sporting estate with a strong commitment to enhancing biodiversity and combating climate change. The estate has been fully organic for over 20 years (certified by the Soil Association) and has two Special Protection Areas for common gulls. A substantial area of the farm is entered into
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Stanhope and Patervan Estate - Tweeddale
Stanhope and Patervan Estate located near Tweedsmuir in Tweeddale, Scottish Borders, and part of the Southern Uplands Moorland Group, is committed in its efforts to carry out vital conservation to help preserve important moorland habitats and save our beautiful Scottish landscape for generations to come. This will only be achieved by pro-active management. This family
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Richard McGill, founder of Game & Country Limited, Selkirk
Game & Country supplies the full range of tools, equipment and clothing needed by gamekeepers in their day to day work. The business has gone from strength to strength and now employs eleven people. Managing director Richard McGill said: “I took over the business in 2000, with a great deal of support from Martin Edgar
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The Allanton Inn - Support Moorland Life
The Allanton Inn in Berwickshire, is an award-winning traditional pub and restaurant with rooms. Husband and wife team Katrina and William Reynolds have just celebrated ten years at the helm, with Katrina’s family farming in the local area for over 70 years. Sporting visitors make up a significant part of their business in a normal
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SUPPORT MOORLAND LIFE URGE RURAL COMMUNITIES
Families, businesses and estates in rural Scotland have launched a new initiative urging politicians to recognise the importance of moorland life to the environment, wildlife and communities. Rural communities across Scotland are to write to parliamentarians from all parties and invite them to see first-hand the multiple benefits delivered across moorland areas of the country.
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THE MOOR THE MERRIER AND HOW WE’RE GREEN AT HEART
Jenny McCallum, from Loch Ness Rural Communities, writes in the Mail on Sunday on her hopes that politicians will Support Moorland Life and recognise the great green work that is happening. By Jenny McCallum At last, we have been able to savour the splendour of rural Scotland over the past week or so. As the
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