The long road to rewilding at Alladale (www.northern-times.co.uk)

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From the glen at Alladale Wilderness Reserve, the landscape appears much as it has for generations. Deer move across the slopes, rivers wind through the valley and the vast Highland scenery feels largely unchanged.

Yet across the estate north of Ardgay, signs of long-term change are beginning to take shape. Young woodland is spreading across parts of the hillsides, peatland is recovering from decades of degradation and species are beginning to reappear in areas where they had long disappeared.

For conservationist and custodian Paul Lister - founder of the conservation charity The European Nature Trust (TENT) - who acquired Alladale in 2003, these are early signs of a project measured not in years, but generations.

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