Wildlife

The Wildlife Group works to achieve its aim to ensure Scotland’s natural heritage, on land and sea, is complete in its diversity, composed of fully functioning ecosystems and resilient to accelerated environmental change.

Group Objectives

  • Biodiversity post 2020: what we would like to see in the post 2020 target route map and actions.
  • Focus on enabling national ecological nature networks to be recognised and delivered
  • Ensuring nature’s needs are accounted for in bills and acts going through the Scottish Parliament.

 

LINK’s Wildlife group was delighted to assist with the preparation of  the 2023 State of Nature: Scotland report.

State of Nature Scotland 2023

Convener

Alistair Whyte

Vice Convener

Dr Paul Walton

Staff Liaison

Juliet Caldwell

The Wildlife group has a number of active members, a full list is shown below.

The Wildlife Group also run the Nature Champion Initiative, which asks Members of the Scottish Parliament (MSPs) to lend political support to the protection of Scotland’s threatened wildlife and habitats by becoming ‘Nature Champions.’

Latest News

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Restoring Scotland’s biodiversity will take ambition, collaboration and scale

29 Oct 2024

The world’s governments are meeting in Colombia at the COP16 UN biodiversity summit this week to talk about biodiversity loss and how to stop it. Although the UK government is there, the Scottish government is not. As a nation world renowned for our landscapes and wildlife, this is a missed opportunity to contribute to and be inspired by the energy and momentum of these events.

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Where are all the bees?

03 Oct 2024

Earlier this summer I found myself repeatedly asking an uncomfortable question: where are all the bees? It turned out I was not alone in being disturbed by the silence in my garden – which, the Bumblebee Conservation Trust explained, was caused by a longer than usual gap between the emergence of queen and worker bees. […]

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Campaigners welcome pledge to introduce new nature law

04 Sep 2024

Commenting on the Programme for Government, Deborah Long, Chief Officer at Scottish Environment LINK, said: “The First Minister’s commitment to introduce a Natural Environment Bill is great news for everyone who cares about Scotland’s environment. “Through the Scotland Loves Nature campaign, more than 40 organisations had called on the Scottish Government to bring forward this […]

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