Highland Habitat offers a comprehensive guide to wildlife habits and wildlife conservation in Britain. These include: Heather lands, deer walking forests, sheep swamps, blanket, mountain forests and montane sub.

The book examines the unique characteristics of the highlands, ecological processes and historical events it has formed since the last glacial end. Among the major conservation and management issues explored are: * Modern agricultural practices and economics * Habitat degradation through overgrazing * Commercial forest plantations * Wildlife persecution * Recreation in the highland * Financing of agriculture in the highlands..