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The public will be able to tour previously off-limits parts of the castle for the very first time this summer

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Excuse my ignorance, to my untrained eye this looks pretty natural to me. why would you say it needs to be restored? well, we've been working here for the last 30 years, ade, and if you'd come here 30 years ago you probably wouldn't have been able to see many young trees at all. it's the largest chunk of caledonian pine forest we've got left but it's been constrained by grazing animals and burning and man's intervention for a couple of hundred years, so we want to see the forest continue to march right up the hills and if we're able to come back in a couple of hundred years, we'd hopefully see...

Yeah, so it's a partnership between four different land owning organisations and what we're trying to do is restore natural processes, we're trying to get the forest to go back to its natural tree line, we're restoring peatlands that's going to help take carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere, and where we've got rivers that have been altered, we're making them more natural by restoring them to their natural channels. excuse my ignorance, to my untrained eye this looks pretty natural to me. why would you say it needs to be restored? well, we've been working here for the last 30 years, ade, and i...

Dan, where are we? we are in the cairngorm national park, abernethy forest, owned by the rspb but part of the cairngorm connect partnership. it's absolutely beautiful, can you tell me what cairngorm connect is? it's a partnership between four different land owning organisations and what we are trying to do is restore natural processes, trying to get the forest to go back to its natural tree line, restoring peatlands which will help take carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere and where we have rivers that had been altered, we are making them more natural by restoring them to their natural channel...