22 Oct 2024
LINK is all about its members. Set up in 1987, LINK exists to be the voice of Scotland’s voluntary environment sector and, as the sector, the voice for Scotland’s environment. In the last 37 years, LINK has amplified the voice of our members and brought the environment into the Scottish Parliament. Our new strategy to […]
16 Oct 2024
The LINK Deer Group comprises all of the main eNGO landowning organisations in Scotland. What are the Scottish government’s proposed Deer Management Nature Restoration Orders? Why does the LINK Deer Group agree that this measure is now necessary? Recently the Scottish government announced its Programme for Government for 2024-5 and we can now expect a […]
03 Oct 2024
Earlier this summer I found myself repeatedly asking an uncomfortable question: where are all the bees? It turned out I was not alone in being disturbed by the silence in my garden – which, the Bumblebee Conservation Trust explained, was caused by a longer than usual gap between the emergence of queen and worker bees. […]
30 Sep 2024
This piece first appeared in Scotland on Sunday on the 29th of September, 2024. Who doesn’t love a sea view? Scotland has glorious ocean vistas by the bucketload. But looking out to the horizon, we rarely think about what’s beyond view, deep below the surface. Scotland’s deep seas are home to extraordinary creatures, from whales […]
05 Sep 2024
The deep sea is one of those mysterious parts of planet earth – or should that be planet ocean? It’s so far away and out of reach that most people only hear about it occasionally in the news or on wildlife documentaries. But did you know that deep sea ecosystems have a powerful influence on […]
03 Sep 2024
Nature restoration is a primary objective of many LINK members and we are pleased that in general the imperative of restoring Scotland’s biodiversity is increasingly recognised and that the Scottish government has committed to action. We are of course deeply concerned about the recent announcements regarding short term cuts to the local authority Nature Restoration […]
01 Sep 2024
This article first appeared in The Scotsman. Scotland’s response to lockdown was to fall in love with nature. The more we were limited to our homes, the more we realised how much nature meant to us and how much it helped us feel better when the world felt bleak. Have we forgotten that? The natural world […]
26 Aug 2024
What are marine protected areas (MPAs)? Marine protected areas (MPAs) are like nature reserves underwater. They are defined areas of the sea set aside to protect and restore important or vulnerable marine species, habitats or ecosystems (communities of living creatures). Usually certain activities are managed (restricted or changed) within MPAs to reduce or prevent damage […]
24 Jul 2024
By Esther Brooker, Fanny Royanez (Scottish Environment LINK) and Rebecca Crawford (Scottish Wildlife Trust) It has been 10 years since a suite of 30 new nature conservation marine protected areas (MPAs) were designated in Scotland’s seas under Scottish and UK law. These were in addition to the MPAs already designated under European law. The purpose […]
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