Environment

Further details about the actions farmers and crofters will have to take to receive agricultural support payments from 2025 have been unveiled. The new criteria for support will help farmers and crofters meet more of our food needs sustainably, and farm and croft while working to protect nature.

The University of Strathclyde’s first-ever social enterprise spin-out company – C2LI – aims to tackle global warming by helping private and public sector organisations understand and adhere to climate change-related law.

This week saw the publication by the Rural Affairs and Islands Committee (RAIC) of the Stage 1 Report on The Agriculture and Rural Communities (Scotland) Bill.

The Outer Hebrides Wildlife Festival is open for registration of events for its 2024 programme.  

The Festival is looking for a range of hosts to hold events across the islands during this third annual celebration of wildlife in the Outer Hebrides, this year taking place from the 22nd – 29th of June with a Fringe Festival running through July.

Climate Adaptation: Wellbeing Workshop

Climate Adaptation: Wellbeing Workshop

Cultivating wellbeing to foster effective action in uncertain times

Working in Scotland on climate change? Then you are invited to an afternoon of exploring how cultivating wellbeing can foster effective action in the workplace.

Using nature to improve resilience across land and coastal areas

Nature Connects? Taking landscape scale and connective approaches to improving resilience across land and coastal areas, a technical consultation on Scotland’s draft National Adaptation Plan (SNAP3)

About the workshop

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.

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