Similarly with campaign to #SaveCoulLinks from golf's development & management propaganda, wildlife gardening, [Bogus] Biodiversity Net Gain & #ClimateChaos 🌊🏌️⛳✈️
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I look forward to your 'epic thread' on Creeping Willow Salix repens, abundant on 📷 Coul Links. 👀
#SaveCoulLinks from golf developer's ecologist who proposed scouring slacks on Coul Links, Loch Fleet Ramsar SSSI, to reduce abundance of Meadowsweet & unspecified willows.
1 & 2) Male
3 & 4) Female
#SaveCoulLinks
Northern Times 23.02.2026
FOI email sparks claims of ‘backdoor influence’ over controversial Coul Links golf course application
www.northern-times.co.uk/news/foi-ema...
#SaveCoulLinks protected nature from string-pulling lobbyists:
I hope this emphasis on habitat restoration & species recovery also pertains to protecting SSSIs & other habitats of existing very high biodiversity from damaging developments & management neglect.
A decision is expected soon about whether or not to #SaveCoulLinks from golf. bsky.app/profile/groa...
#SaveCoulLinks
Thank you for your efforts conserving #LochFleetSSSI for nature & respectful access for the majority of people, not for an exclusive & destructive golf course.
PHOTOGRAPHS should be credited!
Hundreds more of my photographs are linked in Groundhog petition.
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#SaveCoulLinks from golf.
Haar approaching Embo beach, Sutherland, Scotland:
The similar Loch Fleet Ramsar SSSI golf planning application was refused by earlier centre-left SNP majority with Green influence but personnel change & politics is fickle.🤞
#SaveCoulLinks from #ClimateChaos, golf evangelism, the whims of right wing monetarist politics & planning deregulation. 🌊🏌️⛳✈️
#SaveCoulLinks from neoliberal 🌊🏌️⛳✈️
I vote for @snp.org & @scottishgreens.org MSPs because Scotland has PR but worry about right-wing shift. Representatives of other parties, like our @libdems.org.uk MP, @jamie4north.bsky.social, promote environmental destruction of Loch Fleet Ramsar SSSI.
An aerial photograph of Coul Links with the words "SAVE COUL LINKS" in the centre.
There’s still time to #SaveCoulLinks.
A year ago, we gave evidence about the irreparable damage a golf course would do to this incredible place.
Its fate is in the hands of Scottish Ministers. Nearly 18,000 of you have asked them to stand up for nature.
#SaveCoulLinks
Consider that Caithness, Sutherland & Easter Ross @libdems.org.uk MP @jamie4north.bsky.social lobbies for a golf course on #LochFleet Ramsar SSSI, ignoring elementary ecological consensus & current planning policy.
UK PETITION & information links:
you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/sa...
#SaveCoulLinks protected nature from golf.
Apt Freudian slip:
#SaveCoulLinks for Fonseca's Seed-fly (& >1400 other species)
Scottish Natural Heritage
Commissioned Report No. 618:
Survey and ecology of Botanophila fonsecai
Ackland (Diptera, Anthomyiidae), a seed-fly
endemic to Scotland
D. Gibbs, 2013.
#SaveCoulLinks
SNH @naturescot.bsky.social contractor recorded Fonseca's Seed-fly on dunes south of Cluain Burn, on species-rich non-SSSI part of Coul Links in different ownership, proposed to be a golf 'remediation' area, & other species here include Small Blue & Northern Brown Argus butterflies!
We need help to #SaveCoulLinks!📢
One of Scotland’s last remaining undeveloped dune systems is under threat again. Plans to build a golf course would destroy this beautiful & vital ecosystem.
Join us & send a message to Scottish Ministers 👉 https://loom.ly/rnKdZDw
📷Craig-Allardyce
#SaveCoulLinks Ramsar wetland SSSI from ✈️🌊🏌️⛳
Approved new golf course on protected dunes is now with Scottish Government for revue.
UK residents please read, sign & circulate these PETITIONS as objections to the destructive American development.
Part of 1 planned fairway is already lost to the sea!
A scenic dune system with sea and hills beyond
Right now, Scottish Ministers are deciding if Coul Links will become a golf course.
As well as a globally-protected habitat, these Highland dunes are home to informal paths & the John o' Groats Trail, which up to 7 holes would cross.
✍️ Please, act to #SaveCoulLinks: www.rspb.org.uk/whats-happen...
#SaveCoulLinks from invasive aliens. 🌊🏌️⛳✈️
@bsbibotany.bsky.social UK distribution of
Festuca rubra subspecies commutata surveyors:
plantatlas2020.org/atlas/2cd4p9...
www.thenational.scot/news/2543949...
#SaveCoulLinks!!
"Cars and cats kill more birds than golfers" (sic.) #SaveCoulLinks from string-pulling Councillor Jim McGillivray,
source of Trojan horse screening request for planned American golf course on protected Scottish dunes.
UK PETITIONS links in 10-year campaign:
you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/sa...
Pleased to see @naturescot.bsky.social experts standing up for Coul Links’ globally-protected dunes.
🤞 it’s a positive sign for all the residents, conservationists & charities fighting to #SaveCoulLinks.
@ramblersscotland.bsky.social @rspbscotland.bsky.social
www.thenational.scot/news/2539389...
#SaveCoulLinks protected nature from quiddlers ✈️🌊🦋🏌️⛳
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#SaveCoulLinks from @jamie4north.bsky.social.
You describe yourself as "Hard-hitting news & comment for the left" but list my @libdems.org.uk MP as a columnist. His 'environmentalism' on the proposed Loch Fleet SSSI golf course is materialistic & ignores ecological evidence on its destructiveness.
I joined Twitter to promote my petitions to #SaveCoulLinks #LochFleetSSSI, SPA & Ramsar wetland from golf, investing much time in it with little response, even from fellow campaigners, conservation charities & celebrities. I'm leaving Fritter/X after Scottish Government makes its planning decision.
🧵 #SaveCoulLinks from golf, #ClimateChaos & Curate's Egg journalism. 🌊🦋🏌️⛳✈️
I subscribe to @theguardian.com mainly for environmental articles but am dissatisfied by its coverage of #LochFleetSSSI golf development saga, now approaching 10th anniversary.
Curate's Egg: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curate%...
☝️"A separate proposal for an 18-hole golf course on another fragile Scottish dune sand ecosystem continues to divide public opinion."
#SaveCoulLinks information & UK petition:
you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/sa...
#SaveCoulLinks from golf & #ClimateChaos 🌊🏌️⛳✈️🦋
Viola palustris is an important foodplant of Dark Green Fritillary in British uplands, cuideachd. The butterfly is usually conspicuous & plentiful on Coul Links in summer, where Viola riviniana is its main foodplant, here nectaring on Common Knapweed.
#SaveCoulLinks
Keiser's Groundhog golf proposals, first mooted in October 2015, with following planning saga, an Inquiry, then a Hearing (result pending) for a similar course, are now approaching 10th anniversary. It's wearying.
📷1) Species-rich dune grassland in non-SSSI golf 'remediation' area.
#SaveCoulLinks Loch Fleet SSSI from golf
submitted to Scottish Government DPEA
(Planning & Environmental Appeals Division)
Supplementary Photographs 2016 - 2024
1) 11 Foredune erosion
2) 15 Small Blue & Kidney Vetch
3) 31 Stonechat & Burnet Rose
4) 50 Coralroot Orchid
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#SaveCoulLinks SSSI, SPA & Ramsar from golf & bogus Biodiversity Net Gain 🌊🏌️⛳✈️🦋⚠️
Was it part 'rewilded' by Gorse & birches, reducing its ecological condition, to lever a golf development, ostensibly to fund controlling several beneficial native 'invasives'⁉️ you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/sa...