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Main sponsors: Scottish Environment Protection Agency, Scottish Natural Heritage
Parliamentary Events
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Tuesday 7th |
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12.30–2pm Press Conference Room
Food and Wine tasting event |
You are what you eat: Food as a route to environmental understanding Kicking off Environment Week 2006, this lunchtime event gives you a chance to taste some of the best of Scottish wild and farmed produce. The most intimate relationship Scots have with their environment is through their food and this event will highlight the links between caring for our environment, sustainable development and human health. Speakers:
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Hosted by John Scott MSP
Sponsored by the Soil Association |
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2.15pm From Public Entrance Walk around the park |
Discover, enjoy, conserve: Holyrood Park Recently, a group opf adults with learning disabilities
from the Garvald Centre worked with Holyrood Park Rangers to complete
their John Muir Award at Holyrood Park
Meet at the Visitors’ Entrance to the Scottish Parliament at 2.15 pm. |
Led by John Muir Trust |
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6pm - 9pm Garden Lobby |
The Scottish Environment Week Reception For an invited audience including business, community groups, environmental organisations and others. KEYNOTE SPEAKERS:
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Hosted by Sarah Boyack MSP
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Wednesday 8th |
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Morning |
Communities Committee
Members of Scottish Environment LINK are amongst environment organisations given evidence to the communities committee on the Planning Bill Book tickets to watch the meeting by phoning the Scottish Parliament Visitors Information Line: 0131 348 5200 |
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10:30 - 12 noon Meet outside the Public entrance to Holyrood at 10:15 |
Safer Routes to schools: cycle ride to Duddingston Primary School Join Sustrans Volunteer Rangers on a short cycle ride (2 miles) to Duddingston Primary School to meet children who have taken part in the safer routes to schools initiative that encourages children to cycle and walk to school. |
Organised by Sustrans |
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1 - 2.30pm Committee Rm 3 |
What's special about Scotland's seas? Tourism, jobs, marine conservation Scotland's coasts and seas support over 40,000 marine species and a myriad of habitats that underpin important economic and social activities. This session considers what is special about Scotland's seas, and how fishermen and envionmentalists are working together to conserve it. Speakers:
Wine and nibbles provided |
Hosted by Maureen Macmillan MSP
Sponsored by RSPB Scotland |
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6 - 7:30pm Committee Rm 4
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Agriculture and Rural Development: Getting the most for the environment from the new Scottish Rural Development Plan The objectives and priorities for the new Scottish Rural Development Plan will be decided in Spring 2006. The plan is an opportunity to address the environmental aspects of Scotland's land management. It is in this context that Environment LINK and the Macaulay Institute are launching an audit: "The State of Scotland's Farmed Environment 2005" - primarily a web-based resource with baseline environmental data for Scotland's farmed environment.
Wine and Nibbles provided by Soil Association |
Hosted by Rob Gibson MSP |
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Thursday 9th |
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11am Royal Botanic Gardens |
Launch Event: new strategy for conservation of lower plants and fungiJoin us in the botantics for the launch of a new conservation strategy. Lower plants - including mosses, liverworts, lichens and algue - are a crucial but sometimes forgotten part of Scotland's biodiversity. Basic information about this plants is lacking and the number of experts in this field declining. Come and meet the experts, to find out more about these species! The event is organised by Plantlife Scotland - the forum for all of Scotland's palnt conservation organisations. For more information contact Dr Deborah Long Tel: 01786 478 509 Email: deborah.long@plantlife.org.uk |
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12.30-2pm Committee Rm 2 |
Citizens for the future: Sustainable Development Education
A stimulating event featuring exciting initiatives that are being integrated into school education in Scotland, considering what education can do to contribute to sustainable development and hearing direct reports on how well these initiatives are going from the young people involved.
Finger buffet and refreshments will be provided.
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Hosted by Rosemary Byrne MSP and Robin Harper MSP
Sponsored by WWF Scotland; Woodland Trust; and Sustainable Development Education Policy Network |
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Friday 10th - Sunday 12th |
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Visit an Environmental Project in your areaAn opportunity for MSPs and researchers to visit a project in their constituency. If you would like this to be arranged for you, please contact the LINK parliamentary office or tel: 0131 225 4345. Beach clean ups: As part of the Marine Conservation Society (MCS) 'adopt a beach' Where?
Conservation work: Scottish Countryside Rangers have conservation events taking place at:
Canoeing trip: The Scottish Canoeing Association would like to invite MSPs along to try out canoeing at Loch Ard, near Aberfoyle, to see how water access has improved since our Land Reform Act came into force. Renewable energy projects: Highlands and Islands Energy Group, and Ayr Energy Agency have a number of projects that they would be keen for you to visit. Where? Across the Highlands and Islands including...Stornoway Waterwheel (hydro scheme) Lochgilphead community swimming pool biomass boiler Mull slaughter house solar panels Caiirndow: Here We Are 'OUr Power@exhibition from 11am on Sat. 11th to raise Access issues (water access) Inverness Plumbing School: renewable energy kits for demonstration and training purposes. Bird watching: Scottish Seabird Centre would be happy to show MSPs around their site at North Berwick, which includes a new exhibition on climate change. RSPB reserves: Come and visit an RSPB reserve in your area
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Find out more about Scottish Environment Week.
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