RUGBY legend Stuart Hogg has kicked off efforts to get more Scots recycling ahead of the nation’s annual awareness week which begins next Monday. The Glasgow Warriors ace has teamed up with Zero Waste Scotland ahead of Recycle Week taking place between September 25 and Sunday October 1. He was joined by pupils from Oakgrove …
SCOTS based scientists working with Kenyans to protect under-threat mangrove forests are to be honoured with an award by the United Nations in New York today. The team from Edinburgh Napier University have been named winners of the Equator Prize 2017 by the UN Development Programme. They will receive a $10,000 (£7400) prize towards their …
THIRTEEN new faces have just been unveiled as community champions for Forestry Commission Scotland They will push events, woodland activities and talk to members of the public as part of the Volunteer Community Champion programme. It is run in partnership with the Council of Ethnic Minority Voluntary Sector with a goal to help educate people …
ANIMAL welfare charity OneKind has handed an 11,000 name petition to Holyrood’s Public Petitions Committee calling for an end to mountain hare culling. They claim they should be protected on conservation and animal welfare grounds. It suggests an end to all culling of mountain hares in Scotland’s National Parks introducing a Nature Conservation Order.
THE Scottish Green Party has released a short film as part of their campaign against fracking. It comes as the Scottish Government prepares to make a decision on whether or not to allow the gas drilling process. Fracking has been condemned as “dangerous and unnecessary” by the Scottish Greens.
CAMPAIGNERS Surfers Against Sewage have called on the UK government to follow Scotland’s lead and introduce a deposit return scheme for plastic bottles. They presented a 38 Degrees petition a quarter of a million names strong to the Prime Minister Theresa May with the backing of a cross-party delegation of MPs and leading charities. The …
THE ‘Great British Beach Clean’ is just nine days away but organisers say just 122 people have so far signed-up to take part in Scotland. That’s despite the Marine Conservation Society running 40 beach cleans and surveys across Scotland.
THE Scottish Government has been challenged to put a green economy at the heart of its new legislative agenda and to make sweeping changes to its proposed Climate Bill. Scotland’s parliament returns to Holyrood today, with First Minister Nicola Sturgeon expected to lay out her government’s plans for this session later this week. Scottish Green …
“The Paris Agreement requires all Parties to put forward their best efforts through “nationally determined contributions” (NDCs) and to strengthen these efforts in the years ahead. This includes requirements that all Parties report regularly on their emissions and on their implementation efforts.” – United Nations, Framework Convention on Climate Change. Want to learn more? Read: The …
So here’s text of the Paris Agreement visualised as a word cloud Read More »
GORGEOUS and stunning. A new film shot from the air capturing stunning Scottish scenery produced by @johnduncanfilm See more beautiful examples of John’s work at his website.
