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Specialist advice on animal welfare can help keep your livestock in good health and make your farm practices work for you.
- Read more about FAS provide one-to-one support for new entrants, wider grants and advice for all farming businesses
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Scotland’s NHS has become the first national health service in the United Kingdom to stop using an anaesthetic which has a high global warming potential.
Desflurane, used as an anaesthetic during surgery, has a global warming potential 2,500 times greater than carbon dioxide.
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14 projects across the UK have been awarded £250,000 by The Prince’s Countryside Fund (PCF) through their “Supporting Rural Communities” grants programme, supporting over 17,000 people in the British countryside.
- Read more about Sustainability at the core of latest The Prince’s Countryside Fund grants
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The Rural Exchange provides an exciting new platform for people living and working across Scotland’s rural and island communities to have their voices heard in both research and policy-making.
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Projects across the country to expand forests, restore habitats, protect threatened species and improve our resilience to climate change have been awarded a share of £7.6m from the Scottish Government’s Nature Restoration Fund.
- Read more about 31 projects funded to boost transformation of Scotland’s nature
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Scottish Forestry have launched a consultation about the future of grant support for forestry.
Consultation is an essential part of the policymaking process. It gives the opportunity to consider opinions and expertise on a proposed area of work.
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Help with heating costs is on its way to around 400,000 people on low incomes through a new Scottish Government benefit, with the first payments processed this week.
More than £20m will be paid out over the course of February and March in Winter Heating Payments.
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The Scottish Government will carefully consider proposals to support more women into entrepreneurship, First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has said following publication of a wide-ranging independent review.
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