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Scotland Outdoors

Rewilding Scotland with Peter Cairns

Scotland Outdoors

BBC

Nature, Society & Culture, Science

4.7709 Ratings

🗓️ 7 September 2022

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

Mark Stephen speaks with Peter Cairns of Scotland the Big Picture by the River Feshie

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0:35.6

This Scotland Outdoors podcast from BBC Radio Scotland.

0:45.6

Hello and thanks for choosing to listen to this.

0:48.0

I'm Mark Stephen.

0:49.8

Re-welding is one of those slightly problematic terms

0:52.5

that means different things to different people.

0:55.4

It's a term which is, to be honest, evolving.

0:58.6

Peter Kierns is the Executive Director of Scotland, the Big Picture, an organisation which supports rewelding in this country.

1:06.1

Now, I met up with them recently, close to the River Feshi near King Craig.

1:10.0

And as we wandered along the riverbank, Peter explained to me his vision for the organisation.

1:16.9

I suppose the very, very basic idea is more nature.

1:21.1

I mean, you call that rewilding, call it nature recovery, call it ecological restoration,

1:25.7

call it what you will.

1:26.9

But fundamentally, Scotland, the UK find itself in a situation where we're one of the most nature depleted countries in the world,

1:35.3

bizarrely, we're also one of the best educated and most affluent countries in the world.

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