Climavore is a social enterprise that collaborates with local residents, schools, restaurants, and international researchers and activists, to develop new approaches to regenerative sea-farming and food waste. Closing date 8 June.
Scottish Environment LINK, a coalition of 50 environmental groups, has tracked the Scottish government’s 2024 Biodiversity Strategy, analysing all 136 actions in the plan. It finds that around one in seven (18 actions) are complete, about half (69) are in progress,...
At Ardmore Bay, Waternish, SSEN plans to lay a cable across a centuries-old maerl bed, a vital blue carbon sink and a declining and threatened habitat. This is despite NatureScot recommendations that Ardmore Bay and the adjacent Loch Bay be designated as a Proposed...
More than 15,000 people have signed the Our Seas petition to protect at least 30% of inshore waters from bottom-trawling and dredging. If you want to know more about where each party stands on protection of the marine environment, check out this blogby Open...
The Waternish Wildlife Alliance is a community group based on Waternish trying to sustain and restore Waternish's unique biodiversity. We are extremely lucky to have a centuries-old, 6-hectare maerl bed, a vital blue carbon sink and sadly a 'declining and threatened'...
... one rhododendron at a time Raasay has made huge progress with controlling the invasive purple-flowered Rhododendron ponticum, which destroys biodiversity by shading out almost all other plants beneath its canopy. In just over a year, over 160 hectares have been...
Farmed salmon mortalityCalls for an overhaul of the regulatory system have followed the revelation that Scottish salmon farmers recorded more than 35 million unexpected salmon deaths in just under three years, but there were only two unannounced inspections...
By Zoe Scott-Green Fishing for Litter has operated in the UK since 2005 and is recognised as the primary mechanism enabling fishermen to remove marine litter from UK seas. The scheme operates across 70 harbours, with over 700 fishing vessels registered and more than...
In the Scotland's Finest Woods competition, Tormore Community Woodland in Sleat (managed by Sleat Community Trust) won the Small Community Group Award and was Highly Commended in the Large Community Group Award. Congratulations to all involved. The Community Woodland...