Press Release
17 Dec 2025
Representatives of leading environmental organisations including Scottish Environment LINK and RSPB Scotland have today resigned from the Scottish Government’s farming policy group, saying the urgent need to help farmers and crofters tackle climate change and nature loss is being ignored. Representatives are standing down from both the Agriculture Reform Implementation Oversight Board (ARIOB) and the […]
Press Release
11 Dec 2025
Environment charities have reacted with fury after the Scottish government announced yesterday that fisheries restrictions in marine protected areas, originally due to be implemented in 2016, are to be delayed for the fourth time. Yesterday Gillian Martin, Cabinet Secretary for Climate Action and Energy, said a promised consultation on fisheries management measures for inshore marine […]
Blog Post
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 […]
Press Release
02 Dec 2025
Increasing efforts to restore the natural environment will be key to responding to the impacts of climate change, leading environmental groups have said. The claim is made in a new report, Climate change and the natural environment: How Scotland should adapt, published by Scottish Environment LINK, a coalition of 50 environmental organisations. The report outlines […]
Blog Post
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 […]
Blog Post
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 […]
Press Release
03 Nov 2025
Scottish Environment LINK has today launched a new report, Restoring Scotland’s Waters, calling on the Scottish government to take urgent action to protect and restore Scotland’s rivers, lochs, wetlands and coastal waters ahead of its next River Basin Management Plan due in December 2027.
Press Release
30 Oct 2025
Campaigners wearing puffin, bumblebee, wildcat and red squirrel costumes demonstrated outside the Scottish parliament today as MSPs prepared to debate the Natural Environment Bill. The campaigners were representing wildlife because it cannot vote and held signs reading ‘Protect our home’, ‘Restore nature’ and ‘Nature targets now’.
Blog Post
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.
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