One of the most direct measures of a rewilding project’s success is what starts to appear. At Bamff, the species list has been growing steadily since the early stages of ecological restoration in the 1990s, and the pace of change has accelerated markedly since the Wildland Project began in 2021.

The relationship between habitat and species here is not passive. Beavers create wetlands; wetlands attract invertebrates; invertebrates attract birds; birds attract raptors. Scrub establishes; small mammals colonise it; predators follow. Each intervention, and each process allowed to run without intervention, sets off chains of ecological consequence that continue to surprise even those watching closely. Ospreys bred at Bamff for the first time in the modern era in 2024. New invertebrate species are recorded every season. The mammal community – from water voles to pine martens – reflects a landscape becoming measurably richer.

This section documents what is here: not a fixed list, but a living record that will expand as the monitoring programme matures and new species continue to arrive.