Textile designers and tartan experts have banded together to recreate the oldest piece of Scottish tartan for modern production, allowing fans of the famed plaid to wear a piece of history. Using ...

Seven beavers have been released into a Scottish nature reserve for the first time in 400 years. The reintroduction of the species to Glen Affric National Nature Reserve in Scotland’s northwest ...

A scrap of weathered fabric, discovered four decades ago in a peat bog, is the world’s oldest piece of tartan, with new analysis determining it dates to the 16th century. The textile was found in the ...

Beavers released in Glen Affric National Nature Reserve after 400 years of extinction in Scotland, experts said. kbrembo Unsplash After 400 years of local extinction, the first beavers have returned ...

Seven beavers have been released at a loch in Glen Affric National Nature Reserve in the north-west Highlands. The animals were relocated to Loch Beinn a Mheadhoin under licence from Tayside, where ...

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Beavers could make a “historic” return to Glen Affric in spring next year, it has been announced. Forestry and Land Scotland (FLS) has applied to nature agency NatureScot for permission to release the ...

The first release saw a pair of beavers let out into the waters above Beinn a Mheadhoin dam in the Glen Affric national nature reserve on October 24. This was followed by the release of a family of ...