Cairngorms National Park

Highland estate in Cairngorms National Park taken over by Oxygen Conservation

Firm buys historic 15,000-acre Highlands estate to 'rewild'

A screen grab taken of one of the two lynx, which were successfully captured in the Cairngorms National Park on Thursday, exploring their new home. Picture: Royal Zoological Society of Scotland/PA Wire

Lynx in Scotland: All we know about illegally released wild cats

Natural regeneration at the site where Muckrach woodland creation is underway

A tangled tale of one of Scotland's largest woodland schemes

Stranded walkers are rescued from Cairngorms blizzard.

Watch: Moment stranded walkers get rescued during blizzard

Stranded walkers are rescued from Cairngorms blizzard.

Watch: Moment stranded walkers are rescued from Cairngorms blizzard

I took my family to meet Santa in the Scottish Highlands

Galloway becoming Scotland's next national park is currently under consultation

Referendum over national park binned as independent review demanded

An initiative to save one of Scotland’s native tree species has been launched in the Scottish Highlands.

Rare Scottish tree given 'much needed hope' under new initiative

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No Galloway National Park campaign co-founders Denise Brownlee and Liz Hitschmann

Pro new Galloway national park association accused of 'dirty tricks'

The summit of Corn An Tuirc in Glenshee in the Cairngorm National Park.

How much are Scotland's national parks really worth?

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The restaurant that's opened in a Cairngorms forest bothy

The first snowfall of the autumn has been recorded on Cairn Gorm mountain. Picture: Getty Images/Met Office

Scotland records first autumn snowfall amid 'unseasonal' 2C weather

The injured osprey was found in distress by a gamekeeper

Osprey euthanised after being shot in Scottish national park

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Best Spots in Scotland to Watch Migratory Birds This Autumn

Two kits have been spotted in the Cairngorms National Park with families of beavers introduced there

Watch first beaver kits in 400 years born in the wild in national park

Natural regeneration at the site where Muckrach woodland creation is underway

Inspectors' concerns over new woodland promised to be 'exceptional'

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Glenfeshie Lodge, Kincraig, Kingussie. Pic: Alex Baxter

Travel: Explore Wildland, conservation-focused luxury Scottish stays

What is it? A magnificent six-bedroom home, built on the site of a former croft and mill, which enjoys great views over the Cairngorms National Park in an extremely private plot, with no other properties to be seen from its grounds.

Property: Three homes set in premium parklife

Last year there were a number of issues reported at many of our beautiful locations including damaging fires.

Aberdeenshire gearing up for another influx of tourists

Brian Machray (Reward Finance Group), Tony Brown (Forces Manor) and Lucie Martin (Reward Finance Group).

Army veteran secures funding deal for unique hotel retreat in Cairngorms

Braemar businesses talk about impact of Fife Arms hotel in its fifth anniversary

Juvenille beaver being released at RSPB Insh Marshes NNR (Pic: Beaver Trust)

Beavers settle into their new home in the Cairngorms National Park

Located 30 miles north of Perth, River Tilt Park offers 52 lodges and 64 static caravan pitches as well as a variety of utility buildings and a leisure club.

Perthshire holiday park offering more than 100 lodges and pitches expands

Firefighters battling a giant wildfire which broke out near Cannich in the Highlands in May last year (pic: FLS)

Cairngorms potential ban on campfires sparks hundreds of responses

Inverharroch Farm and steadings, owned by the Cabrach Trust, are soon to be home to a new distillery and heritage centre which is at the heart of a major regeneration project in the area – if plans go ahead, a 22-turbine wind farm will be sited on the ridgeline, which locals say will dominate the horizon and overshadow the Lower Cabrach community

Highland locals warn of risk to scenic landscapes from wind turbine ‘saturation’

Wildfire risk is increasing, with climate modelling showing a predicted increase in drought periods Picture: CNPA

Year round ban on fires proposed for Cairngorms National Park

More than £10m has been announced to fund the Cairngorms to become the UK's first net zero national park (pic: Charlotte Graham)

Cairngorms awarded £10.7 million to become UK's first net zero national park

Rural demonstration goes ahead despite Humza Yousaf's cancelled visit

A beaver swimming in murky lake water. Picture: Getty Images

Cairngorm farmers 'worse off' living in national park boundary

Grant Moir, CEO of CNPA, and Lorna Slater MSP carry female beaver to release site (Pic: Beaver Trust).

Beavers arrive in their new Cairngorms National Park home

Beavers will be returning to the Cairngorms. Picture: James Manning/PA Wire

Beavers to return to Cairngorms for first time in 400 years

Chair of the Cairngorms Tourism Partnership, Xander McDade receives the award in Brussels

Cairngorms National Park recognised with prestigious sustainable tourism award

Head outside and you’ll be rewarded with a walk to remember forever, Picture – supplied.

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A bothy in the Cairngorms National Park. Picture: Nigel Corby/CC

The 10 council areas where prices have risen over the past 12 months

A wildcat in the Cairngorms National Park. Photo: RZSS/PA Wire

Three wildcats ‘not fit to release into wild’

A wildcat in the Cairngorms National Park. Photo: RZSS/PA Wire

Released wildcats thriving ahead of ‘challenging’ winter

The Auchavan estate, to the south of the Cairngorms National Park, which has been transformed by a family with a proven track record in the US hotels scene. Picture by David Brown

Luxury cottages hit market after transformation of scenic Angus estate

The Invercauld Arms will undergo a major transformation.

Tourist accommodation projects gain planning approval

Next steps could see beavers return to the Cairngorm National Park by this Autumn. (Pic: Elliot McCandless)

Bringing beavers back to the Cairngorms National Park

A captive Scottish wildcat kitten with his mother at Wildwood Discovery Park, near Canterbury, Kent. Picture: Gareth Fuller/PA Wire

Wildcats to be released in Cairngorms National Park after licence approved

A pair of capercaillie do battle for mating rights

Attenborough warns capercaillie on the brink of going extinct in Scotland again

The boat shed at Loch Vaa, near Aviemore has been locked up after the tenant ended his fishing business given the disturbance caused by wild swimmers and paddle boarders. PIC: Kay Durden.

Wild swimming disturbance brings fishing to an end on Highland loch

Stuart MacBride PIC: Mark Mainz

Book review: The Dead Of Winter, by Stuart MacBride

Leaders of some of Scotland's most prominent estates have come together to complete a development programme to improve Scotland's land.

Cairngorms-based leaders gather to share experience

Pupils at Aboyne Academy with the UN Sustainable Development Goals

Pupils have their say in shaping a more sustainable Cairngorms

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Scotland has failed to meet its latest target for reductions in greenhouse gas emissions, the latest official figures show. Picture: John Giles/PA Wire

Fail: Scotland misses climate target

Pro-independence protesters with Scottish Saltire flags (top) march for Scottish independence. Picture: Andy Buchanan/AFP via Getty Images

Yousaf: Growing popular support for Yes the only way to Scottish independence

Nadine Dorries. Picture: Dan Kitwood/Getty Images

SNP MP cleared of bullying Nadine Dorries