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ENVIRONMENTAL charities have warned that new levelling up legislation could effectively give UK Government ministers powers to “weaken…

Since the 1970s our global consumption of natural resources has tripled, taking a devastating toll on our planet.

Locals in Bo’ness are investigating whether 20-minute neighbourhoods help reduce our impact on the environment and get Scotland closer to net zero or not.

BBC News By Steffan Messenger image copyrightVaughn Matthews image captionThe marsh fritillary butterfly needs marshy grassland habitat and plenty of the devils-bit scabious plant - its favourite food - to thrive in the wild Nature and wildlife in Wales is undergoing a "mass extinction event", environmental charities have said. Ahead of next weeks election, they have urged politicians to take action, with measures such as new, legally binding targets on biodiversity. Campaigners want the issue ...

A red stag with a fancy hat by Stacy Woolhouse. HOW fickle is our human obsession. The red deer is one of Scotland’s most iconic animals, the glorious Monarch of the Glen, but the brouhaha around this species now centres on whether we are killing, or culling as it is often termed, enough of these animals – and if this Covid period is seeing a worrying increase in numbers. Deer has almost, in recent times, been talked of as if it were a kind of vermin. So, whats the problem? Part its tha...

Ministers are under fresh pressure from environmentalists to support a big rise in deer culling.Scottish Environment Link, a charity representing 38 bodies, argues that, while the red deer stag has

THE vast majority of people believe Scotland’s seas should have more protection, research has found. Scottish Environment Link said strengthening the Marine Protected Area (MPA) network to ensure at least 30% of Scotland’s seas are highly protected, and a third are fully protected, by 2030 will be a critical step for the marine environment. Its Save Scottish Seas coalition has launched an ocean recovery plan calling on the Scottish Government to “build back better” following the c...