01 Oct 2025
A Scottish parliamentary committee has backed proposals to introduce statutory targets to restore nature. Legally binding nature recovery targets are the central demand of the Scotland Loves Nature campaign, launched by Scottish Environment LINK and backed by more than 40 organisations.
29 Sep 2025
The next Scottish Government must take action to protect and restore the natural environment in the face of climate change and threats to biodiversity. Ahead of the Holyrood election next year, Scottish Environment LINK has published a manifesto for nature supported by 34 of our member organisations.
24 Sep 2025
Across Scotland, communities are increasingly calling for a more active role in the caring for their local seas, whether through co-managing local marine areas, leading conservation projects, or shaping the decisions that affect their coasts. These ambitions reflect a wider global movement toward more inclusive, locally grounded approaches to nature restoration and environmental governance. Scotland’s […]
11 Sep 2025
The Scottish government announced new fisheries management measures for offshore marine protected areas (MPAs) on 1 September, marking an important step in fulfilling its obligations to protect marine wildlife across a large area of Scotland’s seas. Scotland’s offshore MPAs – those beyond 12 nautical miles from the shore – were designated more than 10 years ago [...]
07 Aug 2025
In July 2025, Scottish Environment LINK reached an amazing milestone! Our membership reached 50 member organisations. Deborah Long, LINK’s current CEO, has been talking to early supporters, early drivers of change and some of LINK’s newer members about this milestone… LINK has come a long way since its start in 1987, with 14 member organisations […]
16 Jul 2025
By Dr Deborah Long, Chief Executive at Scottish Environment LINK We live on a small island on the edge of the Atlantic ocean. Our landscape is highly diverse. There are very few other places in the world where you can physically walk from rainforest to alpine meadows in one day. But in Scotland you can. […]
09 Jul 2025
By Rebecca Crawford, Marine Policy Officer at the Scottish Wildlife Trust Introduction As a maritime nation with over 900 islands and one of the longest coastlines in Europe, the marine cultural heritage of Scotland is deeply ingrained. However, there is a disconnect between people and the ocean, with many people now calling for a better […]
01 Jul 2025
By Andy Marks, Parliamentary Officer The success of Scottish Environment LINK’s award-winning Nature Champions initiative reflects the energy and commitment that MSPs have for ‘their’ Scottish species and habitats. The current session has seen MSPs climb mountains in search of bees, wade across rivers for endangered mussels, attend night-time bat surveys and even abseil from […]
26 Jun 2025
By Elizabeth Mills, Young Sea Changers Scotland “50% of young people do not understand how the ocean impacts them or in turn how they impact the ocean.” In February 2025, Back to Blue released their findings from a global ocean literacy survey of over 3,500 responses aged 18-24 and highlighted what they referred to as […]
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