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 […]
This article first appeared in The Scotsman. Scotland’s response to lockdown was to fall in love with nature. The more we were limited to our homes, the more we realised how much nature meant to us and how much it helped us feel better when the world felt bleak. Have we forgotten that? The natural […]