Cairngorms in a sentence

Carolyn Robertson, a project manager for the Cairngorms Capercaillie Project, said: "We’ve identified a number of wildlife guiding companies that currently list capercaillie as a target species for their tours in the Cairngorms during the breeding season.

Andy Ford, Director of Nature and at the Cairngorms National Park Authority, said: “The Cairngorms National Park is home to 85 per cent of the UK capercaillie population, so action in the National Park is critical.

Eleanor Mackintosh, deputy convener of the Cairngorms National Park Authority Board, said: "Scalan is a unique and very special place.

Home to five of the UK's six highest mountains and 55 munros, the Cairngorms National Park is an epic place to see the Northern Lights.

Part of the Cairngorms National Park, the River Muick – one of the larger tributaries of the upper section of the Dee, is one of several at which the River Dee Trust and Dee District Salmon Fishery Board are carrying out vital restoration works.

Reckless parking in the Cairngorms has been an issue in the past (file photo).

The Cairngorms National Park Junior Ranger Project has been nominated for the education award.

There are also works from Cairngorms photographer Graham Niven, who was recently commended in the Scottish Landscape Photographer of the Year 2023.

The red colour represents both Aberdeen and the Cairngorms, whose Gaelic name Am Monadh Ruadh translates to the Red Hills.

We will soon discover whether we have been successful in securing National Lottery funding for the delivery phase of our Cairngorms 2030 programme.

Before that I lived in Aberdeenshire, just outside the Cairngorms National Park.

Cairngorms, Aberdeenshire and Highland Perthshire will face the brunt of the snow with 4cm tallies predcited.

Image: Supplied by Cairngorms National Park.

The short Keiloch Crag pub walk, usually taking no longer than two hours, is a circular walk around the the Invercauld Estate which takes visitors through pinewood tree to views across the iconic Cairngorms mountain range.

Deep in the wilds of the Cairngorms National Park, the weathered Corrour Bothy has offered a safe haven to countless weary hillwalkers, hikers and mountaineers for 100 years.

Elsewhere, a series of aspen trees at Muir of Dinnet, within the Cairngorms National Park, flowered for the first time since 1996.

The Cairngorms National Park Authority’s planning committee approved the conversion of the old Ballater School last year.

The Glenlivet and Tomintoul area in the northern reaches of the Cairngorms National Park was awarded International Dark Skies status in 2018, meaning it's an ideal spot for stargazing, with minimal interference from light pollution.

Writers have spent a year building an anthology about life and nature in the Cairngorms National Park.

Yesterday in the Scottish Highlands, a climber had to be rescued after falling in 'appalling' conditions near Ben Macdui – Britain's second highest mountain – in the heart of the wild Cairngorms plateau.