@naturescot.bsky.social has distanced Scotland from the former UK Biodiversity Action Plan in their revision of the Scottish Biodiversity List through replacing the former list of UK BAP Priority Habitat origin with a new list of habitats interpreted by EUNIS.

www.gov.scot/publications...

SSEN Transmission is seeking a 🌳🌱Nature Officer🌱🌳 to support quality assurance and control of Biodiversity Net Gain assessment documentation for one of the largest biodiversity enhancement programmes in Scotland. Closes 4 January 2026

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NatureScot has just published 'Guidance on the use of existing biodiversity metrics in the Scottish planning system'. This is the most significant elaboration in guidance since Scottish Government published 'Draft Planning Guidance: Biodiversity' in November 2023.

www.nature.scot/doc/guidance...

Hoping that this is a case of males turning up to the garden pond before the females arrive

8 palmate newt ♂️
2 palmate newt ♀️
3 larval

"Eel rope" - a straw helix structure for young eels to climb up and over river barriers.

Made today during the 'River Catchment Conservation' training event hosted by the Scottish Countryside Rangers Association

#BiodiversityEnhancement

Whilst my daughters searched for chocolate eggs, I was making "egg strips" to supplement the limited vegetation suitable for the palmate newts in the pond to lay eggs on (which I believe contributed to their breeding success in past years when the pond was even sparser).

#BiodiversityEnhancement

Nice to see this topic getting coverage from a wide range of nature conservation actions. Whatever one’s political persuasion, it was extremely unfortunate that the Prime Minister should have misrepresented the situation so badly and incorrectly.

www.birdguides.com/news/conserv...

Nick Littlewood demonstrates when wearable fashion adds to the world of urban ladybird 🐞 identification

@blackdogbirder.bsky.social

SSEN Transmission is seeking a 🌳🌱Nature Officer🌱🌳 (Fixed Term 12 months) to support quality assurance and control of Biodiversity Net Gain assessment documentation for one of the largest Biodiversity Net Gain programmes in Scotland

careers.sse.com/jobs/nature-...

Should we use natural regeneration to create new woods? Tim Sparks describes his study of a barley field left 60 years ago at Monks Wood.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=km32...

Scottish Government are now more widely promoting public consultation on changing the protection of Ramsar features within NPF4 to treat Ramsar sites as if they were European sites.

Closing date now extended to 7 February 2025.

#NPF4

consult.gov.scot/environment-...

Newly published Delivery Plan is the first in the series and should be considered in conjunction with the Strategy. It covers the period 2024-2030.

#BetterBiodiversityData #ScottishBiodiversityList #ScottishBiodiversityMetric

www.gov.scot/publications...

A interesting insight to consider in the conversations about whether alternatives to the default of localised offset (in or adjacent to the development site) for biodiversity could provide more benefits to wildlife and society.

news.exeter.ac.uk/faculty-of-e...