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 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 …
