Moffat 2025 - Final Speaker Announced!

From their Perthshire livestock farm, Tom and his family run Argaty Red Kites, an award-winning rewilding project. When recently reintroduced kites began to roost on Argaty, Tom’s parents, Lynn and Niall, began providing them a small supplementary feed and invited the world to come to the farm, enjoy the birds’ spectacular flight and learn their history from persecution to extirpation to reintroduction and beyond.

In 2021 the Bowsers became the first private landowners in Scottish history to legally reintroduce beavers into the wild. The animals are now bringing remarkable gains to the landscape, boosting biodiversity and storing water in times of deluge and of drought. Tom tells the story of the project in his new book: Waters of Life: Fighting for Scotland’s Beavers.

Tom is a wildlife guide, public speaker and author. His first book, A Sky Full of Kites: A Rewilding Story, was shortlisted for the Saltire Society’s First Book of the Year Award. Waters of Life: Fighting for Scotland’s Beavers was published by Birlinn earlier this year.'