Help us Protect the Wild from runaway industrialisation
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The John Muir Trust is campaigning to reform the planning system to Protect the Wild.
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Inappropriately sited wind farms and their infrastructure are threatening to industrialise wild places we love, like Sandwood, Knoydart and the Monadhliaths near Cairngorms National Park.
Wild places, rural communities and those who visit for pleasure are paying the price. Already, stand on almost any Munro, and you'll notice that your view is increasingly marked by wind turbines.
We believe that there is a way forward that allows us to power the future and protect the wild.
Join our national campaign to fight the industrialisation of wild places
We want the Scottish Government to review planning legislation, to listen to communities when assessing major energy developments, and to protect wild places from industrialisation.
Scotland urgently needs a national conversation about how we decarbonise without destroying the landscapes that define us. As a nation, we deserve better, and so do our wild places.
Watch the steady creep of windfarms across the Highlands since 1995
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