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Nature Champions

The Nature Champions initiative encourages Members of the Scottish Parliament to champion threatened and iconic species and habitats, raising awareness and promoting action to protect and restore Scotland’s environment.

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Adder

Martin Whitfield MSP
  • Froglife

Alpine Blue Sow Thistle

Graeme Dey MSP
  • Plantlife Scotland

Ancient Woodlands

Bill Kidd MSP
  • Woodland Trust Scotland

Ash

Graham Simpson MSP
  • Woodland Trust Scotland

Aspen

Ariane Burgess MSP
  • Trees for Life
  • Woodland Trust Scotland

Atlantic Salmon

Edward Mountain MSP
  • Atlantic Salmon Trust
  • Scottish Wildlife Trust

Azure Hawker

Evelyn Tweed MSP
  • British Dragonfly Society

Badger

Colin Smyth MSP
  • Scottish Badgers

Basking Shark

Stuart McMillan MSP
  • Marine Conservation Society
  • Scottish Wildlife Trust

Bilberry Bumblebee

Graham Simpson MSP
  • Bumblebee Conservation Trust

Black Grouse

MSP
  • RSPB Scotland

Blanket Bogs

Fiona Hyslop MSP
  • Amphibian and Reptile Conservation
  • CIEEM

Blue Whale

Kenneth Gibson MSP
  • Whale and Dolphin Conservation

Bog Sun-jumper Spider

Michelle Thomson MSP
  • Buglife

Bottlenose Dolphin

Douglas Ross MP MSP
  • Whale and Dolphin Conservation

Brown Long-eared Bat

Neil Gray MSP
  • Bat Conservation Trust

Caledonian Pinewoods

Jamie Halcro Johnston MSP
  • Trees for Life
  • Woodland Trust Scotland

Capercaillie

Emma Roddick MSP
  • RSPB Scotland

Common Dolphin

Siobhian Brown MSP
  • Whale and Dolphin Conservation

Common Frog

Shirley-Anne Somerville MSP
  • Amphibian and Reptile Conservation

Common Glow-worm

Stephen Kerr MSP
  • Buglife

Common Lizard

MSP
  • Froglife

Common Pipistrelle

Pam Duncan-Glancy MSP
  • Bat Conservation Trust

Common Tern

Ben Macpherson MSP
  • RSPB Scotland

Common Toad

MSP
  • Froglife

Community Green Space

Joe FitzPatrick MSP
  • Keep Scotland Beautiful

Corn Bunting

Maggie Chapman MSP
  • RSPB Scotland

Corncrake

Kaukab Stewart MSP
  • RSPB Scotland

Curlew

Jim Fairlie MSP
  • RSPB Scotland

Daubenton’s Bat

Annie Wells MSP
  • Bat Conservation Trust

Eurasian Beaver

Ariane Burgess MSP
  • Royal Zoological Society of Scotland
  • Scottish Wild Beaver Group
  • Scottish Wildlife Trust

Flame Shell

Russell Findlay MSP
  • Marine Conservation Society

Flapper Skate

Pauline McNeill MSP
  • Marine Conservation Society
  • Scottish Wildlife Trust

Freshwater Pearl Mussel

Audrey Nicoll MSP
  • Buglife

Fulmar

Karen Adam MSP
  • RSPB Scotland
  • Scottish Wildlife Trust

Garden Tiger Moth

Ross Greer MSP
  • Butterfly Conservation Scotland

Gardens and Designed Landscapes

Sharon Dowey MSP
  • Amphibian and Reptile Conservation
  • National Trust for Scotland

Golden Eagle

Christine Grahame MSP
  • John Muir Trust
  • RSPB Scotland
  • Scottish Raptor Study Group

Golden Plover

Douglas Lumsden MSP
  • RSPB Scotland

Great Crested Newt

Fulton MacGregor MSP
  • Froglife

Great Yellow Bumblebee

Alasdair Allan MSP
  • Bumblebee Conservation Trust

Greenland White-fronted Goose

Jackie Baillie MSP
  • RSPB Scotland

Grey Seal

Marie McNair MSP
  • Whale and Dolphin Conservation

Harbour Porpoise

Paul O'Kane MSP
  • Whale and Dolphin Conservation

Harbour Seal

Gillian Mackay MSP
  • Whale and Dolphin Conservation

Heathland

MSP
  • Buglife

Hen Harrier

Elena Whitham MSP
  • RSPB Scotland
  • Scottish Raptor Study Group

House Sparrow

Paul Sweeney MSP
  • RSPB Scotland

Humpback Whale

Jamie Greene MSP
  • Hebridean Whale and Dolphin Trust
  • Whale and Dolphin Conservation

Kelp Forests

Carol Mochan MSP
  • Marine Conservation Society
  • Scottish Wildlife Trust

Kestrel

John Mason MSP
  • RSPB Scotland
  • Scottish Raptor Study Group

Kingfisher

Christina McKelvie MSP
  • RSPB Scotland

Kittiwake

Maurice Golden MSP
  • National Trust for Scotland
  • RSPB Scotland

Lapwing

Richard Lochhead MSP
  • RSPB Scotland

Large Heath butterfly

Sarah Boyack MSP
  • Butterfly Conservation Scotland

Leatherback Turtle

Brian Whittle MSP
  • Marine Conservation Society

Leisler’s Bat

MSP
  • Bat Conservation Trust

Lesser Butterfly Orchid

Maree Todd MSP
  • John Muir Trust

Lowland Raised Bogs

Sue Webber MSP
  • Buglife

Machair

MSP
  • Bumblebee Conservation Trust

Manx Shearwater

Ruth Maguire MSP
  • RSPB Scotland

Maritime Cliffs and Slopes

Paul McLennan MSP
  • National Trust for Scotland

Medicinal Leech

MSP
  • Buglife

Merlin

Tim Eagle MSP
  • RSPB Scotland
  • Scottish Raptor Study Group

Minke Whale

Jeremy Balfour MSP
  • Hebridean Whale and Dolphin Trust
  • Whale and Dolphin Conservation

Moss Carder Bee

Mark Ruskell MSP
  • Bumblebee Conservation Trust

Nathusius’ Pipistrelle

Keith Brown MSP
  • Bat Conservation Trust

Native Oyster Beds

Finlay Carson MSP
  • Marine Conservation Society

Natterer’s Bat

MSP
  • Bat Conservation Trust

Natterjack Toad

Emma Harper MSP
  • Froglife

Noctule Bat

Miles Briggs MSP
  • Bat Conservation Trust

Northern Brown Argus

Roz McCall MSP
  • Butterfly Conservation Scotland

Northern Damselfly

Lorna Slater MSP
  • British Dragonfly Society

Northern February Red Stonefly

MSP
  • Buglife

Oak

Monica Lennon MSP
  • Woodland Trust Scotland

Open Mosaic Habitats

Stephanie Callaghan MSP
  • Buglife

Orca

Beatrice Wishart MSP
  • Whale and Dolphin Conservation

Otter

Kate Forbes MSP
  • Scottish Wildlife Trust

Palmate Newt

Murdo Fraser MSP
  • Froglife

Paths

Sandesh Gulhane MSP
  • Ramblers Scotland

Peregrine

Bob Doris MSP
  • RSPB Scotland
  • Scottish Raptor Study Group

Pond Mud Snail

MSP
  • Buglife

Ponds and Small Lochs

Emma Harper MSP
  • Froglife

Puffin

Claire Baker MSP
  • RSPB Scotland

Red Kite

Meghan Gallacher MSP
  • RSPB Scotland
  • Scottish Raptor Study Group

Red Mason Bee

Patrick Harvie MSP
  • Buglife

Red Squirrel

Alexander Burnett MSP
  • Scottish Wildlife Trust

Riparian Woodland

Rachael Hamilton MSP
  • Scottish Wildlife Trust
  • Woodland Trust Scotland

Risso’s Dolphin

Neil Bibby MSP
  • Whale and Dolphin Conservation

Rivers

Colin Beattie MSP
  • Buglife

Road Verges

Mercedes Villalba MSP
  • Amphibian and Reptile Conservation
  • Plantlife Scotland

Rusty Bog-moss

Alex Cole-Hamilton MSP
  • Plantlife Scotland

Sandeel

Willie Rennie MSP
  • Marine Conservation Society
  • RSPB Scotland

Scotland’s Rainforest

Jenni Minto MSP
  • Plantlife Scotland
  • Woodland Trust Scotland

Scottish Primrose

Liam McArthur MSP
  • Plantlife Scotland

Scottish Wildcat

Rhoda Grant MSP
  • Royal Zoological Society of Scotland

Scottish Wood Ant

MSP
  • Buglife
  • National Trust for Scotland

Sea Trout

Jackie Dunbar MSP
  • John Muir Trust
  • Scottish Wildlife Trust

Seagrass

David Torrance MSP
  • Scottish Wildlife Trust
  • WWF Scotland

Sei Whale

Kevin Stewart MSP
  • Whale and Dolphin Conservation

Short-eared Owl

Michael Matheson MSP
  • RSPB Scotland
  • Scottish Raptor Study Group

Slow Worm

Daniel Johnson MSP
  • Froglife

Small Pearl-bordered Fritillary

Clare Adamson MSP
  • Butterfly Conservation Scotland

Smooth Newt

Jenny Gilruth MSP
  • Amphibian and Reptile Conservation

Soprano Pipistrelle

Foysol Choudhury MSP
  • Bat Conservation Trust

Swift

Gordon MacDonald MSP
  • RSPB Scotland

Traditional Orchards

Pam Gosal MSP
  • Amphibian and Reptile Conservation
  • National Trust for Scotland

Tree Lungwort

Katy Clark MSP
  • Plantlife Scotland

Twinflower

Alexander Stewart MSP
  • National Trust for Scotland
  • Plantlife Scotland

Upland Birchwoods

Anas Sarwar MSP
  • John Muir Trust

Urban Forest

Shona Robison MSP
  • Woodland Trust Scotland

Waxcap Grasslands

MSP
  • Plantlife Scotland

Whinchat

Willie Coffey MSP
  • RSPB Scotland

White-beaked Dolphin

Ash Regan MSP
  • Whale and Dolphin Conservation

White-tailed Eagle

Mark Ruskell MSP
  • RSPB Scotland
  • Scottish Raptor Study Group

Wood Pasture and Parkland

MSP
  • Woodland Trust Scotland

Woolly Willow

Graeme Dey MSP
  • National Trust for Scotland
  • Plantlife Scotland

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