24 Apr 2025
This is the first in a series of blogs looking at the Natural Environment Bill. The Natural Environment Bill, introduced in February and currently undergoing parliamentary scrutiny, will introduce legal targets for nature restoration as well as making changes to National Parks, deer management, and the powers to modify environmental protections. This blog will consider […]
20 Feb 2025
Environment charities have welcomed the publication this week of Scotland’s Natural Environment Bill, a crucial step in fighting the nature and climate crises. The publication of this Bill, with its provision for legally binding nature recovery targets, has been a key ask of the Scotland Loves Nature campaign, launched in 2024. Alongside legal targets, the […]
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 […]
13 Feb 2023
It’s now a month since COP15 in Montreal. The COP15 summit gave us commitments to global nature targets to halt the loss of nature by 2030 and to restore it by 2050. We also saw commitments to conserve and manage 30% of the Earth’s land and seas for nature; halt the extinction of known species, […]
09 Feb 2023
From one of LINK’s Honorary Fellows, Claudia Beamish On this bright day which augers spring, I pottered in the back garden amongst a range of peeking bulbs, budding shrubs and fruit trees. There the breeze stirred my autumn-long pondering on why COP27 caught the headlines while COP15 did not? The twin crises – nature and […]
23 May 2022
How important is nature to us all? We live in an ever changing world with biodiversity loss and ecosystem that no longer function, extreme climate changes and pressures of war, costs of living, energy and food security issues, all impacting us all now, here in Scotland and across the world. Is it self indulgent to […]
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