Further Awards Success for Wildland in the Cairngorms

Thomas MacDonell, Wildland’s Conservation Director, receiving award alongside Cairngorms Connect partners at the Green Giant awards ceremony at this year’s COP26.

A decade and a half of successful landscape restoration at Wildland's Cairngorms estates were recognised with two prestigious awards this month.

On 6th November, Wildland, together with its Cairngorms Connect partners RSPB Scotland, Forestry and Land Scotland and NatureScot, accepted the Nature and the Environment Award at Holyrood Magazine’s first ever Green Giant Awards. Held to mark the end of Holyrood's four-day COP26 fringe festival in Glasgow, the Green Giant Awards were created to highlight the work of individuals and organisations across Scotland at the forefront of the fight against Climate Change.

Wildland is also celebrating a win at RSPB Scotland’s 10th anniversary Nature of Scotland Awards, held on 18th November. This year's Forest and Woodland award category recognised the 15-year transformation of Glen Feshie from over-grazed pinewood to one of Scotland’s foremost forest recovery projects. Attendees at the online awards ceremony had the chance to see an excerpt from BBC Scotland's visit to the estate in 2018 (from 1hr, 9m, 45s).

Both followed on from success for Wildland back in September when nearby Killiehuntly Woodland was picked by an expert panel of judges for the New Native Woods Award at the 'Tree Oscars', the Scotland's Finest Wood Awards, sponsored by the Woodland Trust Scotland.