07 Apr 2026
Scottish voters will go to the polls next month in an election that will bring a massive turnover in elected representatives. As many as half of the MSPs being sworn in are likely to be fresh faces, and – regardless of the winning party – the Cabinet and Ministers will look very different. The 2021-26 parliament […]
26 Mar 2026
In June 2021, in the throes of the Covid-19 pandemic, MSPs logged on to a Nature Champions webinar to begin their journeys as Nature Champions in the 6th Scottish Parliament. It’s hard to imagine that, in just under five years, so much has been achieved! Since then, more than 100 MSPs have become Nature Champions for some of Scotland’s extraordinary species […]
04 Mar 2026
When independent government advisors have zero confidence in government policy, there’s something badly wrong. But zero confidence is what the Climate Change Committee says it has in the Scottish government’s policies for reducing farming emissions beyond 2030. The climate watchdog’s latest report examines Scotland’s progress in reducing emissions and analyses whether government policy will do what it needs to […]
09 Feb 2026
After over a decade of sustained pressure, Scotland will now have a Natural Environment Act on the statute book. Its passage marks a significant shift: nature recovery is no longer just a policy aspiration but a legal responsibility. The Act strengthens accountability, embeds nature across public decision-making, and provides new tools to tackle some of the most entrenched drivers of biodiversity loss.
18 Dec 2025
Following COP30 recently held in Belém, Brazil (10–21 November), the global community once again faces a stark warning: we are running out of time. The UN Secretary-General reminded nations that The UN Secretary-General stated that global temperatures going above the crucial 1.5ºC limit is likely to happen by the early 2030s. He stressed that we […]
11 Dec 2025
John Mayhew was a very well known figure at LINK, having served as Chair of the LINK Board from 2006 to 2009. He was Head of Policy at National Trust for Scotland for two decades, until he became Director of APRS, a role he held until he retired in 2022. John was key to LINK […]
26 Nov 2025
Straight off, let’s remember that the World Economic Forum (WEF) in 2020 stated that “$44 trillion of economic value generation – over half the world’s total GDP – is moderately or highly dependent on nature and its services and, as a result, exposed to risks from nature loss.” The UK is currently deep in political […]
04 Nov 2025
If Nature could speak, what would she say? On the eve of the Just Transistion summit 2025 and two days before the debate in Scottish Parliament about the Natural Environment Bill, I imagined what nature would want to say to us. Biodiversity is declining across the world, and also in Scotland. IPBES’ global assessment of biodiversity […]
21 Oct 2025
The newly published proposals for protecting priority marine features outside of marine protected areas (MPAs), which are expected to open for formal public consultation in November along with proposals for fisheries restrictions for inshore MPAs, are designed to help close the gap that exists in protection.
