Scotland's 'Galapagos' lochs | Ron Greer for Parkswatch Scotland:
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parkswatchscotland.co.uk/2026/02/04/o...
Did Scotland see them here first?🤔
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Far Ralia: Is ABRDN Property Income Trust now paying for its mistakes? | Nick Kempe in 'Parkswatch Scotland.
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#Cairngorms ⛰️
#NaturalCapitalists
Reintroduction of beavers to Glen Affric is a victory for nature and democracy | Tom Bowser in 'The National'.
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#EuropeanBeaver 🦫
#GlenAffric
Action to Protect Rural Scotland (APRS) is calling for all proposals for power and water hungry AI data centres to be subject to environmental impact assessment.
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AI data centre plans equivalent to five new Edinburgh size cities | Hamish Morrison in 'The National'.
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#EnvironmentalImpact
#EnergyPolicy 🔌
#WaterResources💧
ABRDN's sale of Far Ralia is in trouble, but will Oxygen Conservation hoover it up at a knock-down price? | Nick Kempe for Parkswatch Scotland.
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#Cairngorms ⛰️
#CarbonMarkets
Action to Protect Rural Scotland (APRS) launches a petition calling on the Scottish Government to require Environmental Impact Assessments for Data Centres.
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#DataCentres
#Energy
Culblean Hill, playing with fire in the Cairngorms National Park and the politics of muirburn | Nick Kempe for Parkswatch Scotland.
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#Cairngorms ⛰️
#Muirburn 🔥
Scottish Ministers, their officials and public agencies have completely lost their way on land and environment issues. What we are witnessing is the comprehensive capture of public policy by vested interests.
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The ban on camp fires in the Cairngorms National Park does not appear to be evidence based | Professor Douglas MacMillan for Parkswatch Scotland:
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#Cairngorms 🏔️
#Muirburn 🔥
Oxygen Conservation and the state of Kinrara - more on BrewDog's legacy | Nick Kempe for Parkswatch Scotland:
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#Cairngorms 🏔️
#Strathspey
Who lights the fires in the Cairngorms National Park? | Professor Douglas MacMillan for Parkswatch Scotland:
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#Cairngorms
Everything is fine at the Scottish Government as Cairngorm fire byelaws perpetuate one law for landowners and quite another for the rest of us | Nick Kempe at Parkswatch Scotland:
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The Coire Ciste Montane Woodland Project - What went wrong, and what lessons might be learnt for the future? | Andy Amphlett for Parkswatch Scotland:
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The failure of Christies (Fochabers) Ltd., a gross waste of public money, and a Scottish Government that does not have a clue what it is doing in respect of forestry | Nick Kempe for 'Parkswatch Scotland:
#ScottishForestry 🌲
#ScottishEnvironment 🌱
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'Scotland should punch above its weight by joining Ireland in a shift to nature forestry' says the Forest Policy Group:
#NatureForestry
#NormalForestry
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#Scotland
#Ireland
A serene Duddingston Loch in the autumn sunshine.
The land above the shoreline was bare when I was a boy. All of these trees have grown up since.
#Edinburgh
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Coille Coire Chuilc, misleading signs at Auchreoch, and Alasdair John Campbell | Nick Kempe on the free trade in Scotland's land and its consequences, in 'Parkswatch Scotland':
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#NationalParks
#ScottishEnvironment 🌱
Nick Kempe casts a critical eye over the conduct of business by the Board of the Loch Lomond and Trossachs National Park |Parkswatch Scotland:
#LochLomond
#NationalParks
#ScottishEnvironment 🌱
Lessons from the Italian Alps: The management of livestock grazing | Nick Kempe fpr Parkswatch Scotland:
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#NationalParks
I visited the Borders Forest Trust's native woodland restoration project on the Games Hope Burn yesterday.
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#Rewilding
Lessons from the Italian Alps | Nick Kempe for Parkswatch Scotland:
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Hawthorn laden with berries on the cyclepath at Drylaw, in Edinburgh.
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A veteran alder with see-through trunk on the Gore Water, Midlothian.
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Spey Catchment Initiative, Pitmain and the failure of conservation in the Cairngorms National Park | Nick Kempe for Parkswatch Scotland:
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#Cairngorms
#CatchmentManagement
Mandy Haggith on a rainforest elm in Assynt, in her 'The Lost Elms: A Love Letter to Our Vanished Trees - and the Fight to Save Them', Wildfire (2025):
#BookSky 💙📚
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#AtlanticRainforest
#Assynt
#Elms
Abrdn's legacy at Far Raila as paid for by Scottish Forestry - another liability in the Cairngorms National Park | Nick Kempe for Parkswatch Scotland:
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#Cairngorms
Scrutiny of the Natural Environment Bill offers the opportunity to improve the process for creating new National Parks says Action to Protect Rural Scotland:
#NationalParks
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Development in North Lanarkshire Green Belt refused as contrary to the National Planning Framework | report by Action to Protect Rural Scotland:
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