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Anger over plans to remove protected status for Dorset wildlife

Probe launched over claims of sonic torture at Scots fish farms

Corin Smith of Inside Scottish Salmon Feedlots questioned why Scottish salmon farms work to weaker environmental standards than their counterparts in other countries THE Scottish Government has launched an investigation after receiving complaints from environmental conservationists over the use of “seal scarers” by a company which has fish farms in Argyll and Bute. The row is over the use of acoustic deterrent devices (ADDs), aka seal scarers, which are used to deter seals from attacking fish farms by emitting a sound in the water they find unpleasant. Critics of seal scarers – devices branded as “sonic torture” – claim they cause hearing damage and stress in dolphins, porpoises and whales and therefore breach legislation to protect cetaceans.

Scotland Could Become the World s First Rewilding Nation

The worldwide populations of mammals, birds, amphibians, reptiles and fish fell by an average of 68 percent between 1970 and 2016, according to the 2020 Living Planet Report from the World Wildlife Fund (WWF). Ecosystem destruction has led to 1 million species 500,000 animals and plants and 500,000 insects being under threat of extinction. Scotland is one of Europe s least wooded countries and the rewilding movement is aiming to change that. (Here Loch Beinn a Mheadhoin west of Cannich.) Nilfanion/Wikimedia/(CC BY-SA 3.0) The worldwide populations of mammals, birds, amphibians, reptiles and fish fell by an average of 68 percent between 1970 and 2016, according to the 2020 Living Planet Report from the World Wildlife Fund (WWF). Ecosystem destruction has led to 1 million species 500,000 animals and plants and 500,000 insects being under threat of extinction.

Anger as trees destroyed at Joe Blunt s Lane, Thetford

“It’s one thing going in with a chainsaw to cut down diseased trees, compared to ripping and clawing out undergrowth and clearing an entire area.  “This is also an area special to many in Thetford. It is a lane where they played as children and continued to use for recreation to this day.”  Residents and councillors in Thetford say they are “devastated” after the removal of woodland on land belonging to the Kilverstone Estate by Joe Blunt s Lane. - Credit: Hazel McCambridge Kilverstone Estate’s forestry contractor said the area would have been inspected by the Forestry Commission to consider the impact of the proposal on the woodland wildlife and that a European Protected Species survey was carried out – as required by the Forestry Commission Felling Licence. 

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