Environment

Scotland's Nature Student Conference

After the conference had to be cancelled back in 2020, UHI are now looking to bring students together once more to talk about Nature.

New land reform legislation will aim to change how land is owned and managed in our rural and island communities for the better.

The Land Reform (Scotland) Bill, introduced to Parliament today (14 March 2024), includes measures that will apply to large landholdings of over 1,000 hectares, prohibiting sales in certain cases until Ministers can consider the impact on the local community. This could lead to some landholdings being lotted into smaller parts if that may help local communities.

NatureScot has launched a new online service as part of work to modernise deer and wildlife management systems in Scotland.

Own Yersel Scotland: Reimagining the future

This year’s conference – Own Yersel Scotland: Reimagining the future – invites participants to imagine the future they want to see for community landownership and land reform in Scotland.

Work to plant woodland and restore peatlands in Scotland has begun as part of a project to capture the University of Edinburgh’s carbon emissions. 

Five areas - in the Scottish Borders, Galloway, Lochaber, Loch Awe and Tay Forest - are in the running to be Scotland’s next National Park.

The Scottish Parliament Information Centre (SPICe) would like to hear from academics working in natural capital finance to support future work in the Scottish Parliament. 

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Researchers at The James Hutton Institute are working with a community-owned woodland in Aberdeenshire to explore how people can take a greater role in deciding how solutions to the climate and biodiversity crises are used in their local environments.

The project, involving Murray Park Community Woodland in Alford, is one of seven across Europe and Scandinavia as part of £4.6 million international project called “COEVOLVERS”.

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