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.
Press Release
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.
Press Release
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.
Blog Post
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 […]
Press Release
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 [...]
Blog Post
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 […]
Blog Post
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. […]
Blog Post
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 […]
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