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Stuart Gillespie

Bid to transform Dumfries and Galloway landscape inspiring change across Scotland

A bid to transform land near Castle Douglas is inspiring change across Scotland.

The Threave Landscape Restoration Project is a 100-year plan from the National Trust of Scotland, which so far has seen 81 hectares of a disused dairy farm become wildflower meadows, rich wetlands and native woodlands buzzing with wildlife.

And National Trust for Scotland teams across the country, including at Culloden, Burg, Iona and Ben Lawers, are now looking to adapt their conservation grazing approach after seeing how GPS software has been used at Threave.

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