Blog Post
07 Dec 2023
By Professor James Curran, LINK Honorary Fellow This piece was originally published in The Scotsman. Scotland trades on its environment with images of misty mountains, soaring eagles, heather moors, wooded glens, and clear waters turned into golden whisky. The Scottish Government even says that it “aspire(s) to be the greenest country in the world”. But […]
Blog Post
05 Dec 2023
Saving Scotland’s Red Squirrels has released the results of its fifth annual Great Scottish Squirrel Survey, revealing that 2023 public participation was the second highest since its inception, beating all previous years, bar the record-breaking pandemic lockdown year of 2020. According to the survey, which was conducted between the 2nd and 8th of October and […]
Blog Post
10 Nov 2023
By Kat Jones, Director, Action to Protect Rural Scotland (APRS) Environmental organisations in the UK recently wrote to the Prime Minister expressing concerns about how the Internal Market Act (IMA), passed in 2020 after Brexit, is negatively impacting environmental policymaking. The letter was coordinated by APRS in the aftermath of the IMA being used to […]
Blog Post
05 Oct 2023
By Deborah Long, Chief Officer at Scottish Environment LINK Scotland is renowned across the world for its landscapes, seas and wildlife. Despite that reputation, we are 28th from the bottom of countries in terms of the health of our biodiversity, as measured by the Biodiversity Intactness Index. Scotland’s wildlife is not doing well. If we […]
Press Release
03 Oct 2023
Environment charities have welcomed the publication on Friday of Scotland’s Agriculture and Rural Communities Bill, and have called on the Scottish government to introduce a radical new farm funding system to help the industry reduce climate emissions and restore biodiversity. The charities, who launched the Farm for Scotland’s Future campaign in 2022 alongside farmers’ groups, want […]
Press Release
03 Oct 2023
Organisations and individuals across the Highlands have come together to form The Common Ground Forum (CGF). Initiated by the Association of Deer Management Groups and Scottish Environment LINK with the aim of setting aside long entrenched disagreements over some areas relating to deer management, the Forum includes deer stalkers, foresters, farmers, landowners, community representatives, nature […]
Press Release
28 Sep 2023
Duncan Orr-Ewing, Convener of Scottish Environment LINK’s Deer Group, said: “We welcome the overwhelming decision by the Scottish Parliament yesterday to approve secondary legislation to remove the season for male deer and to permit the use of night vision equipment to facilitate deer management. This is part of a package of measures recommended by the […]
Press Release
13 Sep 2023
The LINK Deer Group of environmental NGO landowning organisations today expressed its disappointment at the decision by the Rural Affairs and Islands Committee to block a key part of the Scottish Government’s move towards a modernised system of deer management. Following a debate, the committee was split down the middle, with four MSPs supporting a […]
Blog Post
12 Sep 2023
As Scottish Environment LINK’s Nature Champions initiative celebrates its tenth year, Nature Champions Coordinator, Andy Marks, highlights its value in galvanising political support for Scotland’s threatened and iconic species and habitats. It is incredibly heartening to catch Members of the Scottish Parliament discussing which species and habitats they are championing as part of the […]
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