The charity trying to restore the Caledonian Forest to more than 600,000 acres of the Highlands has claimed a conservation breakthrough with the sequencing of the genetic code of a dwarf birch.
It is from Trees for Life's Dundreggan Estate, near Loch Ness in Glen Moriston, where the conservation charity is conserving the species.
Dwarf birch (Betula nana) is a nationally scarce species in Britain, occurring mainly on Scottish mountains.
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