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Action plan for environmental rights woefully inadequate, say campaigners

Campaigners have branded a UK and Scottish Government action plan to deliver on environmental rights as “woefully inadequate”. An analysis of the submitted action plan outlining the UK’s compliance with the Aarhus Convention, by Friends of the Earth ...

01 Aug 2022 at 19:07

UK first as hidden camera captures wild white-tailed eagle egg hatching

A hidden camera has captured the first live UK footage of a wild white-tailed eagle hatching. Staff at RSPB Scotland’s Abernethy nature reserve in Perthshire, where the eaglet hatched, described it as being “such a special moment”. It comes after ...

09 Apr 2022 at 17:55

Camera hidden in stick gives ‘phenomenal’ live view of nesting sea eagles

A hidden camera has been installed near an eagle’s nest to give a live view of Scotland’s largest bird of prey in what is said to be a UK first. White-tailed eagles Shona and Finn, also known as sea eagles, are incubating two eggs at the nest in ...

01 Apr 2022 at 12:25

Capercaillie numbers fall to critically low numbers, survey finds

The capercaillie is at real risk of extinction in the UK, with only 542 of the birds estimated to be left in Scotland, according to new data. The population has dropped around 50% since the last survey six years ago and is now at a critically ...

30 Sept 2022 at 01:01

Beaver family to be moved to Loch Lomond

A family of beavers is to be moved from Tayside to Loch Lomond as part of efforts to boost biodiversity and the population of the “ecosystem engineers”. RSPB Scotland applied to NatureScot for a licence to translocate the animals to the Loch ...

15 Dec 2022 at 11:19

Scotland

Nature body objects to latest golf course plan for Highland coastline

Plans to build an 18-hole golf course in the Highlands have drawn an objection from Scotland’s nature agency over the potential impact on one of the last coastal dune habitats of its kind in the country. NatureScot has advised Highland ...

17 May 2023 at 16:13

Illegal killing major cause of hen harrier deaths, study finds

Illegal killing is the main cause of death for older hen harriers, one of the UK’s most at-risk birds, according to new research. The study, led by the RSPB, also found that mortality due to illegal killing was highest in areas ...

11 May 2023 at 00:01

Scotland

Nature charities demand increased urgency from politicians on climate crisis

The leaders of Scotland’s political parties are not responding to the combined climate and nature crises with the “urgency required” a coalition of nature charities has insisted. Twenty-six groups have joined to write an open ...

14 Aug 2023 at 00:01

Two beaver kits moved to Loch Lomond die in ‘otter attack’

Two beaver kits which were moved to Loch Lomond to boost biodiversity have died, with an otter thought to have killed them both. The kits, along with their parents and three siblings, were released in the RSPB Scotland ...

16 Feb 2023 at 13:59

Carnivorous giant leech swallows toadlet whole in latest episode of Wild Isles

A giant leech lurking in the woodland undergrowth has been captured hunting baby toads and swallowing them whole in the latest footage set to feature in Sir David Attenborough’s Wild Isles series. In the BBC One ...

01 Apr 2023 at 16:52

New report shows Scottish wildlife is on the decline

Scotland’s wildlife continues to decline, a new report has found, with one in nine of the species examined at risk of becoming extinct north of the border. The State of Nature Scotland report warned the risk of ...

27 Sept 2023 at 19:00

Scotland

RSPB calls on MSPs to support grouse moor legislation

RSPB Scotland has urged MSPs to back legislation to introduce a licensing system for grouse shooting, as it recorded further cases of protected raptors “disappearing”. The charity said 35 satellite-tagged ...

24 Nov 2023 at 11:07

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