In response to the Scottish Government’s announcement about fisheries management in inshore Marine Protected Areas and Special Areas of Conservation
Environmental organisations have today welcomed the Scottish Government’s announcement on managing fishing within Scotland’s network of marine protected areas (MPAs). The MPAs include some of the most vulnerable marine wildlife sites in Europe and some of the 30 areas designated in the summer of 2014 to protect a range of habitats and species including flameshell beds and the common skate. However, until now the areas have been at risk of potentially irreversible damage from some fishing activities. The new proposals for fisheries management in the MPAs will help move the most damaging activities away from sensitive habitats.
Read article by Helen Todd, published in the Scotsman Newspaper.
Don’t undermine the laws that protect nature say nearly half a million European citizens. Press release from the Joint Links, 24 July 2015
In response to the Scottish Government’s announcement of fisheries management in Scottish inshore Marine Protected Areas, the marine taskforce issued the following press release:
Press release by the Joint Links on the European Commission’s REFIT ‘Fitness Check’ of the Birds and Habitats Directives, 12 May 2015.
Scottish Environment has LINK published a damning indictment of our failure to diminish or eliminate wildlife crime in Scotland – and the risk to our international reputation as a wildlife haven.
Natural Injustice – Paper 1 – A Review of the enforcement of wildlife protection legislation in Scotland provides a forensic analysis of wildlife crime investigations and demonstrates the weaknesses Scotland has experienced in their detection, policing and prosecutions
Natural Injustice – Paper 2 – Eliminating Wildlife Crime in Scotland follows on with a history of the crimes and the minorities committing them, and makes recommendations for dealing with this scourge.
Press release issued 17 December 2014, on the LINK report Scotland and the Carbon Bubble.
