By Deborah Long (Chief Executive – Scottish Environment LINK) Deadlines are often a good thing. When there is so much to do, when the timeline is measured in months not days and when urgent priorities trump important priorities, that’s when targets, measuring progress and deadlines really help. We’ve seen that the climate and child poverty […]
This month the Scottish government published research showing that Scotland’s nature contributes more than £40 billion to the economy and supports around 260,000 jobs.
By any standards, that means nature – the complex array of life with which we share this land and its surrounding seas – plays a massive role in our economic life.
The Scottish Government must protect spending on the natural environment in its upcoming budget, campaigners have said. The call comes after it was announced that the Scottish Government will receive an additional £3.4 billion in funding following the UK budget. Earlier this year Scottish Ministers were criticised after money allocated to councils for nature restoration […]
Earlier this summer I found myself repeatedly asking an uncomfortable question: where are all the bees? It turned out I was not alone in being disturbed by the silence in my garden – which, the Bumblebee Conservation Trust explained, was caused by a longer than usual gap between the emergence of queen and worker bees. This gap […]