{"id":5178,"date":"2011-10-08T07:28:42","date_gmt":"2011-10-08T07:28:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.walkhighlands.co.uk\/news\/?p=5178"},"modified":"2021-01-17T13:12:48","modified_gmt":"2021-01-17T13:12:48","slug":"perthshire-tree-fest-kicks-off-this-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.walkhighlands.co.uk\/news\/perthshire-tree-fest-kicks-off-this-weekend\/","title":{"rendered":"Perthshire Tree Fest kicks off this weekend"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"A wildlife festival, which returns to Perthshire for the second year, is celebrating news that it will be bringing an internationally famous film festival to the area direct
\nfrom the UN\u2019s headquarters in New York.<\/p>\n

Wild Connections, founded in 2010 to showcase Highland Perthshire\u2019s potential as a wildlife tourism destination, will run from 8th \u2013 16th October, offering around 30 events to enthusiasts.<\/p>\n

Organisers are hailing the inclusion of nine award\u2010winning short films, brought here by Forestry Commission Scotland as part of the UN\u2019s International Year of the Forests celebrations, as a major coup. They expect visitors will travel from far and wide to the Birnam Institute on Sunday
\n9th October for the free viewing of wildlife films, which were premiered in New York earlier this year.<\/p>\n

James McDougall, national co\u2010ordinator for International Year of the Forests for Forestry Commission Scotland, said \u201cThe nine award\u2010winning short films truly bring home the benefits of forestry. Scotland\u2019s strength in forestry continues to grow and I\u2019m very pleased to see such a high quality series of films being shown in Scotland as part of our celebrations for International Year of the Forest.\u201d<\/p>\n

Adrian Davis, festival organiser, commented \u201cWe\u2019re delighted to have such a prestigious film festival as part of our programme and to bring such significant films to Perthshire. We\u2019re certain they will be popular so, although it\u2019s free to attend, we are urging people to book their tickets online<\/a> to ensure they get a seat.\u201d<\/p>\n

The range of events on offer at this year\u2019s Wild Connections is strongly influenced by the International Year of the Forest celebrations, in particular demonstrating the rich wildlife that lives within Big Tree Country. Badgers, red squirrels, wild cats, pine martens, birds of prey, bats and red deer will all play starring roles in many of the events and activities.<\/p>\n

Wildlife photography enthusiasts will not be disappointed either, as multi\u2010award winning photographer Peter Cairns will return to the festival with two master classes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A wildlife festival, which returns to Perthshire for the second year, is celebrating news that it will be bringing an internationally famous film festival to the area direct from the UN\u2019s headquarters in New York. Wild Connections, founded in 2010 to showcase Highland Perthshire\u2019s potential as a wildlife tourism destination, will run from 8th \u2013 16th October, offering around 30 events to enthusiasts. Organisers are hailing the inclusion of nine award\u2010winning short films, brought here by Forestry Commission Scotland as part of the UN\u2019s International Year of the Forests celebrations, as a major coup. They expect visitors will travel from…<\/span> <\/p>\n

Read more ›<\/div>\n

<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5216,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5178","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-walking-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.walkhighlands.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5178","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.walkhighlands.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.walkhighlands.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.walkhighlands.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.walkhighlands.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5178"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.walkhighlands.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5178\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23325,"href":"https:\/\/www.walkhighlands.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5178\/revisions\/23325"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.walkhighlands.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5216"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.walkhighlands.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.walkhighlands.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.walkhighlands.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}