Share our passion for the wild nature, heritage and culture of Wester Ross by joining one of our guided walks, with all proceeds funding nature restoration at the Rewilding Bac Dubh project in Poolewe.

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We are a social enterprise company. Our mission is to educate and inspire people to love and protect the natural world around them.

We raise money for our nature restoration project, Rewilding Bac Dubh, by offering our guided walks and workshops, and inviting donations.

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Safaris

Our guided walks and workshops explore the wonderful diversity of nature in Wester Ross, with Gaelic culture and heritage woven into the natural landscape . From lichens, mosses and plants in mystical temperate rainforests, to iconic eagles, otters, red deer, dolphins and abundant bird life, the wildlife of land, sea and sky is irresistible.

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Rewilding

Our ambitious nature restoration project at Bac Dubh, Poolewe, aims to restore 92 acres of peat bog and woodland to enhance biodiversity. We have an ultimate vision to provide an area of wild nature to be enjoyed by residents and visitors alike, with involvement from local schools, researchers and volunteers.

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As a social enterprise, all our profits go to nature restoration at Bac Dubh.

We are extremely grateful for donations of any amount. As most of our work is carried out by volunteers, donations help towards the cost of tools, materials and specialist advice- thank you for your support!

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Latest news

To read all our news please visit our blog and subscribe to our Facebook pages for Bac Dubh and Wild Ewe Safaris.

A seed island with a view!

We finished building our first seed island on the hillside on a fine October weekend. Our plan is to remove some of the existing vegetation from inside the fence, and leave the bare earth to see what comes up. There are birch and rowan trees nearby so hopefully they will seed, and the island means they'll be protected from the deer. We're also tempted to collect a few acorns from a nearby oak woodland and pop them in to see what happens.

Leaky dams doing their job!

Thanks to our amazing team and volunteers, who were quickly christened the 'Bac Dubh Beavers', we were able to construct 30 dams on the Cliff Burn during the last week of July! The dams are already doing their job, reconnecting the burn with its floodplain. The dams don't impound water, but they hold back the flow after heavy rainfall so that the water is released slowly, helping to re-wet the surrounding peatland and creating habitat for more biodiversity. We look forward to

Pretending to be beavers

We've finally started our 'leaky dams' project at Bac Dubh! Generously supported by HIEF, we are creating leaky dams on the Cliff Burn to hold back the flow of water, helping to re-wet the peatland, create new habitat and increase biodiversity. We're excited to see where this journey takes us. But first, we had to get the materials onto site, and we were very grateful to Laide and Aultbea Community Woodland for supplying us with lodgepole pines to build the dams with. Last ni