Saving Scotland’s Giant Skate: Project MediaClick the image to watch! The flapper skate (Dipturus intermedius) is a critically endangered species with numbers greatly reduced from what they once were. The…
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Calls for three-mile limit for Scottish coast
Thursday, August 5th, 2021A coalition of more than 100 organisations has demanded that trawler boat fishing is banned from taking place anywhere within three miles of the Scottish coast. Our Seas is an…
A Whale In The Room: Sea Change Wester Ross
Tuesday, May 4th, 2021Written by Sea Change Wester Ross There’s a whale in the room during this election – it’s the “Missing Marine Debate”. The debate which the party leaders who are standing for…
Out of the blue: Blue carbon in Scotland
Thursday, April 1st, 2021This blog from the Scottish Parliament Information Centre (SPICe) explains the current understanding of carbon captured and stored in Scotland’s coastal and marine environment, known as ‘blue carbon’. It also…
Ban on single-use plastic ‘imperative’
Wednesday, January 6th, 2021Environmental campaigners say it is now “imperative” that the Scottish Government acts quickly to ban single-use plastic items. Friends of the Earth Scotland warned that delaying a ban by even…
Fight for Scotland’s Nature
Tuesday, November 24th, 2020Time is running out for Scotland to deal with ‘toothless’ laws that will protect our precious environment as the UK finally exits the EU in just over a month’s time,…
Scottish Parliament fails on Nature Emergency
Friday, November 20th, 2020Despite a wide-ranging debate showing the Scottish Parliament’s increasing concern for nature, it misses a vital opportunity to declare a Nature Emergency. RSPB Scotland has described the outcome of the…
Scotland failed to prevent marine feature loss
Monday, November 2nd, 2020Loch Carron Flame Shell © Graham Saunders/NatureScot Flickr Scotland has failed to meet a ten-year-old target to prevent damage to precious marine features, according to a leaked Scottish Government report…
World fails to meet biodiversity targets
Thursday, September 24th, 2020The world has failed to meet any biodiversity targets to stem the destruction of wildlife and life-sustaining ecosystems in the last decade, according to a devastating new report from the…
Edinburgh Declaration calls for commitment to nature
Tuesday, September 1st, 2020Yesterday [31 August], the Scottish government published the ‘Edinburgh Declaration’. This declaration seeks agreement between subnational, regional and local governments across the world, calling on the United Nations Convention on…