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image captionCampaigners want to see Galloway become Scotland s third national park
The case for Galloway to become Scotland s third national park has been taken to Holyrood.
It is the latest step in a long-running campaign to acquire the status.
South of Scotland SNP MSP Emma Harper secured the debate on the issue which has enjoyed cross-party support in Dumfries and Galloway.
However, the Scottish government repeated its stance that it has no plans to create any new national parks.
Scotland currently has two national parks, one in the Cairngorms, the other is Loch Lomond and the Trossachs.
Ewing tells farmers he ‘will not rest’ until CAP funding fully replaced February 11, 2021, 12:01 am
Fergus Ewing MSP, the Rural Economy Secretary, is due to address the NFU Scotland AGM (Alan Peebles/PA)
Rural Economy Secretary Fergus Ewing has vowed he “will not rest” until funding to replace the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) reaches farmers.
Ahead of his speech to the National Farmers Union Scotland, Mr Ewing pledged to continue pushing the UK Government over what he claims is a £170 million “gap” in the subsidy’s replacement over the next four years.
Mr Ewing is also expected to address the issue of reducing emissions in farming and food production, while thanking farmers for their “tireless” work during the coronavirus pandemic.
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image captionHunting and habitat loss wiped out lynx in Britain between 500 and 1,000 years ago
Hundreds of years after the last lynx died out in Britain, people in Scotland are being asked about whether the cats should be reintroduced.
Eurasian lynx are the third largest predator in continental Europe after the brown bear and wolf. Their main prey are roe deer - a small deer that favours woodland.
Lynx were once native to Britain but were driven to extinction 500 to 1,000 years ago due to hunting and habitat loss.
Three charities - Scotland: The Big Picture, Trees for Life and Vincent Wildlife Trust - have come together to look into the potential of releasing lynx into the wild in Scotland.
Super-rich Scandinavians who own large tracts of Scotland are supporting proposals to return lynx to the Highlands after more than 500 years.Anders Holch Povlsen, a Danish billionaire who owns the
JEAN-CHRISTOPHE VERHAEGEN / Getty ImagesTwo billionaire Scandinavians who own vast swathes of land in remote regions of Scotland are hoping to reintroduce wild lynx on their land.Anders Holch Povlsen, 48, a Danish billionaire worth $6 billion who is thought to be the U.K.’s largest landowner, with an empire of some 220,000 acres, and Lisbet Rausing, a Tetra Pak heiress, who owns another 80,000 acres of the Scottish Highlands, are funding research aimed at reintroducing the predator, British newspaper The Times reports.The lynx was wiped out in Scotland and the rest of the United Kingdom by hunting and habitat loss around 500 years ago; however, populations survive in central and northern Europe.Eurasian lynx can stand up to 27 inches high at the shoulder and weigh some 60 pounds, making them considerably larger than the Canada lynxes and bobcats seen in some North American regions.They eat around five pounds of meat per day. Their purely carnivorous diet means that many sheep fa