Tall pine trees line a sandy dune beside the sea at Culbin Forest coast.
The Culbin Forest coast, home to the one-flowered wintergreen plant. Photograph: NatureScot/Richard Spowart
The Culbin Forest coast, home to the one-flowered wintergreen plant. Photograph: NatureScot/Richard Spowart
Rare wildflowers at risk of falling into sea rescued from eroding Scottish coast

Conservationists relocate 3,400 one-flowered wintergreens, a species estimated to have lost more than half its UK population in the past 50 years

Thousands of one of Britain’s rarest wildflowers have been moved to safety from an eroding Scottish shoreline where they were at risk of falling into the sea.