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The Scottish Wildlife Trust and NFU Scotland are calling on the Scottish Government to ensure the country’s farmers and crofters can play their part in addressing the climate and biodiversity …
The Scottish Wildlife Trust has teamed up with NFU Scotland to hold a topical panel event which will examine how Scotland’s farmers and crofters can deliver for biodiversity and the …
The Trust has joined a number of conservation charities to call for agricultural funding to be used to help farmers and crofters respond to the challenges of climate change and …
New assessments demonstrating the risk to bees from neonicotinoid pesticides have been published by the European Food Safety Authority. These assessments draw on more than 1,500 scientific studies and conclude …
Discussions of wildlife losses often concentrate on the relatively big things, from red squirrels to wildcats, and the picture that paints is worrying enough. But according to new, comprehensive research, …
Lynbreck Croft is located in the Cairngorms National Park. At 150 acres it’s substantially larger than most other crofts but with a mixture of hill ground, woodland, grassland and bog …
This week I attended the ‘big rural debate’ between Fergus Ewing, Scottish Government Minister for Rural Economy and Connectivity and Michael Gove, the UK Government’s Secretary of State for Environment, …
As this year’s Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP24) winds down, it’s an important time to reflect on two things: what the …
Where are we now? The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) warns that in order to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius significant changes in the way land is …
In January 2017, four industry experts were appointed as Agriculture Champions by Fergus Ewing, Cabinet Secretary for Rural Economy and Connectivity. Their remit was to advise on the development of …