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Friday, August 9th, 2019
The next United Nations climate change summit will take place in Glasgow, if a bid to attract COP26 to the UK is successful, it has been announced. The UK and...
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Monday, March 25th, 2019
The UK will miss almost all the 2020 nature targets it signed up to a decade ago, according to a report by the government’s official advisers. The nation is failing...
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Tuesday, February 12th, 2019
Public backing for a ban on discarding edible fish at sea has been thwarted by the reluctance of the fishing industry and the government to put an end to the...
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Wednesday, February 6th, 2019
Cuckoo rays have returned to Whiting Bay, part of the South Arran Marine Protected Area, in which scallop dredging is strictly prohibited. Credit: Howard Wood/COAST A recent paper on the...
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Wednesday, January 30th, 2019
Scottish Fish Farm Image © SEPA Look into the eye of a salmon, get eye to eye, then ask yourself, do you want this king of fish, this iconic species, this muscular adventurer...
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Thursday, January 24th, 2019
Chile Aquaculture Image © Kevin Schafer / WWF-US Chilean lawmakers are seeking to amend existing legislation to safeguard water conditions in the country’s salmon farming heartland. Failure to comply will...
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Thursday, January 17th, 2019
A new global agreement to protect the seas should be a priority for the government to stop our seas becoming a “sewer”, according to a cross-party group of MPs. Plastic...
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Friday, December 28th, 2018
As we move towards the end of 2018, here's a look back at one of the biggest community campaigns of the year - protecting Scotland's kelp forests - and the...
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Thursday, December 13th, 2018
Kelp forest at Loch Laxford © George Stoyle - SNH Flickr Scottish Community Alliance (SCA) is a network of national networks, all of which have community-based memberships. The...
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Wednesday, December 12th, 2018
The use of exemptions to EU restrictions on fish discards by EU trawlers has risen by 300% in the last year, according to research released three weeks before a ban...
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