Kim McAllister takes a personal look at options for rewilding in Scotland including a visit to the Alladale Wilderness Reserve

Scotland Outdoors

BBC

Nature, Society & Culture, Science

4.7 • 709 Ratings

🗓️ 22 August 2019

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Discussing wolves, lynx and planting trees.

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0:00.0	He tells her that she will be sent to France as a secret agent, and if she's caught, she's going to be shot.
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0:29.9	The brand new series of History's Secret Heroes.
0:32.8	Listen first on BBC Sounds.
0:35.4	Hello and thank you very much for downloading the Scotland Outdoors podcast.
0:38.8	I'm Mark Stephen and joining me this week for the first time, Kim McAllister.
0:42.2	Hello, how are you?
0:43.0	I'm very well.
0:43.8	Good.
0:44.7	Just explain briefly what your background is.
0:46.7	What do you do normally?
0:47.5	Oh, what do I do?
0:48.4	I'm a journalist.
0:49.4	I also have a media company which I've been running for about 10 years now so I freelance as a journalist and I also help with communication strategy for companies.
0:57.0	This podcast is looking at an issue that is of real interest to you.
1:01.0	Yeah, I was really fascinated to explore this rewilding issue which I know is very controversial.
1:07.0	I know people feel strongly one way or another but as I investigated it I realized that I could kind of take it on a personal journey and hear the pros and cons and figure out how it actually feels to reconnect with the landscape.
1:18.6	Well, just to put this into context, back in April, Scotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon declared a climate emergency and pledged, and I'm quoting here,
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