Interesting to note that the Advertisement immediately to the left of this article is for Alladale House , Scotland...

Thanks for pointing that out Alan. Google Ads, which grough uses, tailors advertising content to that on the page, using some whizz-bang high-tech algorithms that we don't understand and Google certainly doesn't disclose. We never know just what ads will appear on our pages and occasionally instances such as this happen. There was also a recent ad for the Three Peaks Challenge alongside our story about how the Wasdale MRT was suffering at the hands (and feet) of such challngers. We don't make any money from the Google Ads unless you click on them, so if you find their presence objectionable, the best bet is to ignore them. However, we can block advertisers. If you think an advert breaches our terms and conditions or other policies, let us know.

Given the amount of free advertising the BBC is giving this guy (their coverage has had only the most token of representation for opposing views) it's important for everyone to speak out and say how unacceptable and hypocritical this whole project is. If he succeeds more landowners will follow and the Scottish Highlands will be more closed to the Scottish people than they ever have been in history.

Worse advertising if you're in Scotland. The last of the 6 half-hour progs finished broadcasting on Monday...only to have the 1st one rebroadcast on Friday as a new series. As to the series; I can't be bothered writing my views of this biased press release from a private company.

This guy is a stain on the Highlands, I thought we'd gone way past the days of fencing off vast areas so other people (clue they pay vast amounts of cash - look up his website) can lord it over the scum that the rest of us are. Get your insulated wire cutters out boys! I also object to the BBC giving this commercial venture free advertising by virtue of my licence fee.

The series has just finished, and I was wondering why there was no fuss. So it was not run in England. It is blatant propaganda, and the big messages at the end were: Lister cannot retain staff, and the place is less Jurassic Park, more Pets Corner. There is no critical review of the proposals. There are occasional references to "obstructive authorities" (SNH and Highland Council), the reasons for objections were not mentioned. They did make a big thing about it being fenced as if this was something wonderful, did the effect of such a fence and related security infrastructures on a wild landscape get mentioned? Guess! If you want to see rewilding in action, visit Loch Glass nearby, or Kildermorie and its new woods. There is Blackmount, where last week I found a flourishing Scots Pine wood where there was nothing but moorland on my previous visit. Yesterday I visited an area of England that has been left alone for 40 years thanks to being surrounded by Kielder Forest. The heather was probably a bigger deterrent to access than that irritating man's 3m fence would be. As for closing off Scotland from its people. Do you really think we will allow that to happen?

BTW Alladale is not in Sutherland. It is south of the Kyle at the head of Strathcarron, Ross and Cromarty. It was briefly administered by a now defunct Sutherland District Council, but that covered a very different area to Sutherland the place.

Caught most of the first episode of the series the other night (we missed the original Scotland-only run) and was fascinated. Lister just seems naively ignorant of the way his plans will trample on the new rights of access. I guess there's more to come on that. Also interesting to note his plan to include European brown bears in his release programme. In North America this species is known as the grizzly. Is the north of Scotland today [i]really [/i] grizzly country? Ha, I can just imagine the fly fishermen loving the prospect of a giant grizzly whipping their salmon out of the rivers, while they stand around filling their waders!

When private landowners want to do their own thing or make money from our land, without tangible public benefit, it takes a certain critical political mass to stop them. There is currently no where near such a political mass to stop them. The UK access groups are unable to kick up enough of a fuss to sustain press attention. The Suffragettes and Miners and Commoners had to make sacrifices to hold the government and the elite to account. Are there any real revolutionaries left, like me?

why don't they put wild celts in the park? it would stop everyone bitching about Lister 'Closing scotland off from its people', plus it would make driving through the park more interesting. the government should be supporting this lister guy anyway and making the estate a national bloody park. the other nat parks in scotland have farms all over them. Stuff the ramblers association.

Screw the ramblers association. make Alladale a gov. funded national park. foreiners pay on entry, Scots pay taxes-get in free.They should get european wolves, bison, scots,etc to populate park. return to natural state.they should do that in aus too but everythings fully extinct- can't import thylacines from sweden.