1st January 1970 http://scotlink.org/files/policy/PressReleases/BioTFBiodivDutyNov04.pdf
LINK question whether the Scottish Executive’s guidelines emphasise enough how the new law should be central to running the country’s public bodies.
These guidelines still present the conservation of biodiversity as an optional add-on. Ultimately Scotland’s future depends on assuring the long term conservation of biodiversity, in which we are all implicated and all have a role to play.”