Reclusive owner who rewilded his estate

Glenfeshie Estate is owned by the reclusive Danish billionaire, Anders Holch Povlsen.

Povlsen – who owns several Highland estates – is now the second-largest individual landowner in the UK and the largest shareholder at online fashion retailer ASOS. Since 2006, a programme of rewilding has been carried out on his Glen Feshie lands.

Part of this involved a heavy reduction of deer numbers to allow the regeneration of woodland. The cull was controversial as it included stalking by helicopter and taking deer out of season.

But, with deer having no natural predators since the extinction of wolves and lynx in Scotland and numbers getting out of control, it was argued such drastic action was needed to bring balance to the ecosystem.

Today, the glen is rapidly regenerating and is already a land transformed from its recent past as an overgrazed, ecologically impoverished deer forest.