Landward 2022

Landward episode 23 2022: The team investigate the effects of climate change and how extremes in weather are dealt with. Dougie is in the Great Glen in the hills above Loch Ness to find out how foresters future-proof tree plantations from storm events. He sees how the forest is cleared to avoid destruction caused by wind blow. Near Ballater in the north east, Shahbaz captures the aftermath of the recent floods by focusing on three bridges along the river Dee catchment. Rosie is in the Borders at St Abbs to visit a seal colony that was devastated by Storm Arwen. […]

Landward episode 23 2022: Dougie and the team make the 100-mile journey from the mainland out into the Atlantic to discover St Kilda, Britain’s remotest and wildest islands. Dougie takes a walk up the highest sea cliffs in Britain and gets a bird’s-eye view of the geology and ecology. He hears worrying evidence that the world-renowned seabirds’ colonies are now facing an uncertain future due to climate change.       Elsewhere, Anne follows the last islanders, discovering why these Hebridean people eventually had to leave. She also discovers what the hundreds of unique structures that are scattered throughout the

Landward episode 22 2022: In this episode, Dougie visits a farm near Beauly that is taking a regenerative approach to livestock farming. He meets a couple inspired by time spent in Kenya, who move their sheep and cattle around the land regularly to graze. Elsewhere, Anne is in a forest in South Lanarkshire where she gets to grips with the ancient woodland skill of coppicing, and Rosie makes an early start to count pink-footed geese taking off at Montrose Basin. And now the sheep shearing season is over, Cammy tries his hand at goat shearing.       Scotland’s farming

Landward episode 21 2022: Dougie is in the far north west of Sutherland at Kinlochbervie to listen out for one of the sounds of the autumn – the deer roaring as the stags battle it out in the annual rut.       Arlene is near Moffat, where she learns about the eco alternatives to plastic tree tubes, while Cammy is in Fife to meet a farmer who has planted apple trees in the middle of his fields and to find out what the benefits are to the land and wildlife. Meanwhile, Rosie discovers the joys of mudlarking – digging