Chris Packham: Rewilding can fix broken Glen Coe

Emma Taggart
The Times
Chris Packham said the landscape in the Scottish Highlands that was once covered by trees “needs fixing”
Chris Packham said the landscape in the Scottish Highlands that was once covered by trees “needs fixing”
ADRIAN SHERRATT FOR THE TIMES
Emma Taggart
The Times

Chris Packham has described Glen Coe as broken and in need of fixing as he encouraged projects to help restore the Scottish wilderness.

The naturalist and broadcaster said that Glen Coe’s landscape in the Scottish Highlands was “barren, over-grazed moorland”.

The broadcaster said the area could be regenerated through rewilding to restore the landscape to “patches of woodland, patches of space where wildlife can prosper”
The broadcaster said the area could be regenerated through rewilding to restore the landscape to “patches of woodland, patches of space where wildlife can prosper”
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Packham said the area could be regenerated through rewilding to restore the landscape to “patches of woodland, patches of space where wildlife can prosper”.

Rewilding is the restoration of land to increase biodiversity and benefit native plants and animals.

Packham told BBC Radio’s Good Morning Scotland: “I remember going there as a kid and going, ‘wow, Scottish wilderness, fantastic’. But that was in the late Sixties and early Seventies. We’ve all learnt now that that landscape is broken and it needs fixing.”

He said