29 August 2024, Starts: 17:30, Ends: 20:00

Thursday 29 August  5.30 - 8.00  Dingwall Community Library

The Scottish Rewilding Alliance is hosting a series of community events in support of its campaign to make Scotland the first Rewilding Nation. 

The first of these is at Dingwall Library on 29 August.  There will be a showing of the film 'Why not Scotland?', followed by a 'Paperboats' writing workshop facilitated by Merryn Glover.

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The Alliance is also inviting organisations and individuals to sign the Rewilding Nation Charter urging the Scottish Government to declare Scotland the world’s first Rewilding Nation and commit 30% of Scotland’s land and seas to rewilding principles.  All those signing the Charter declare their support for four key principles

1. REWILDING TO RESTORE NATURE

Nature underpins the food we eat, the air we breathe and the water we drink, but nature cannot continue supplying these life-giving services in the face of unrelenting exploitation. Rewilding offers our best hope of restoring health to the natural world we all depend on.

2. REWILDING OURSELVES

Nature is at its best when it is wild and unpredictable – an endless source of surprise, joy and wonder. If we want to enjoy all the fruits of nature’s dynamism, let's learn to embrace more uncertainty, support coexistence with wildlife and make more space for wildness in our day-to-day lives.

3. REWILDING FOR PEOPLE

Business as usual is no longer an option. Changing how we do things is now essential, but everyone needs to be included in that change. So we invite people from all walks of life to join Scotland’s inspirational rewilding journey. Working together, we can create a greener, fairer Rewilding Nation we can all be proud of.

4. REWILDING AT SCALE

Rewilding can reconnect and expand our scattered fragments of remaining nature – reversing biodiversity loss in these small and isolated pockets. Crucially, rewilding at scale would restore landscape-level connectivity, allowing wildlife to flourish and helping us tackle climate breakdown.