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Eoghan Daltun 🌍 @irishrainforest.bsky.social · 4d

You might easily take this for tropical rainforest in some faraway country.

But it's an Irish temperate rainforest, a much *rarer* habitat.

And it's equally threatened, only by masses of deer, goats, and sheep, rather than chainsaws or bulldozers.

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Andy Paton @andypaton.bsky.social · 4d

Innovation awards selection #NatureOfScotlandAwards

Hans Unkles

www.itllneverwork.boats

It'll Never Work | UK's 1st Solar Powered Electric Fishing Boat

A fascinating documentary following the build of Lorna Jane, the UK’s first fully electric commercial fishing boat built by Hans Unkles. Stream online now.

www.itllneverwork.boats

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Andy Paton @andypaton.bsky.social · 4d

FYI @ailsamcl.bsky.social

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Andy Paton @andypaton.bsky.social · 4d

Innovation awards selection #NatureOfScotlandAwards

Hans Unkles

www.itllneverwork.boats

It'll Never Work | UK's 1st Solar Powered Electric Fishing Boat

A fascinating documentary following the build of Lorna Jane, the UK’s first fully electric commercial fishing boat built by Hans Unkles. Stream online now.

www.itllneverwork.boats

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Atlantic Salmon Trust @ast-salmon.bsky.social · 21d

📢 West Coast Tracking Project shortlisted for 2025 Nature of Scotland Awards 📢

Find out more at atlanticsalmontrust.org/west-coast-t...

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West Coast Tracking Project shortlisted for 2025 Nature of Scotland Awards - The Atlantic Salmon Trust

We are delighted to report that the West Coast Tracking Project, a partnership between the Atlantic Salmon Trust, Fisheries Management Scotland, and the Scottish Government's Marine Directorate, has b...

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Ian Denton @iand777.bsky.social · 6d

1/5 Wren Roosts
As autumn progresses the wrens in the garden will be seeking out cold weather roost sites.
Here they use the log shed - they love something that is cave-like.
The wren is the last bird to go to roost - often in the half-light, as bats are emerging.
You need to watch carefully.
🦉

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Andy Paton @andypaton.bsky.social · 4d

Hans Unkles a finalist in this years #NatureOfScotlandAwards, please see below Ailsa

www.seafish.org/responsible-...

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Andy Paton @andypaton.bsky.social · 4d

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Steaming on sunshine: The UK’s first solar powered fishing vessel | Seafish)

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Andy Paton @andypaton.bsky.social · 4d

Hans Unkles a finalist in this years #NatureOfScotlandAwards, please see below Ailsa

www.seafish.org/responsible-...

www.seafish.org

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Andy Paton @andypaton.bsky.social · 4d

cc @ailsamcl.bsky.social

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Andy Paton @andypaton.bsky.social · 4d

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Steaming on sunshine: The UK’s first solar powered fishing vessel | Seafish)

www.seafish.org

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Andy Paton @andypaton.bsky.social · 4d

Please explain or better still, apologise for your appalling legacy @mairigougeon.bsky.social

Ailsa McLellan @ailsamcl.bsky.social · Jul 15

4/4 #Salmon farms in Scotland are foreign owned. They pay relatively little tax, and strive for automation, whilst leaving us a legacy of pollution and damage. This is the antithesis of what should constitute a 'Good Food Nation' @mairigougeon.bsky.social

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Andy Paton @andypaton.bsky.social · 4d

An appalling legacy from @mairigougeon.bsky.social as she heads towards the salmon fish farming plc

Howard L Wood OBE @howardlwood.bsky.social · Jun 9

LESS THAN 1% OF SCOTLAND'S seas are fully protected. 87% of inshore Marine Protected Areas allow Scallop Dredging & Bottom Trawling. @johnswinney.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Australian government to declare almost a third of its oceans ‘highly protected’ in the next five years

Murray Watt tells UN conference in France a review of Australia’s marine parks will ‘lay the foundation’ for increasing ocean protections

www.theguardian.com

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Howard L Wood OBE @howardlwood.bsky.social · May 30

More than a national scandal, it's verging on corruption by senior civil servants who have allowed Regulatory Capture by big fishing trade bodies. Time for a full independent Inquiry. Happy to provide reams of evidence. @johnswinney.bsky.social @mairigougeon.bsky.social

www.itv.com/news/2025-05...

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Ailsa McLellan @ailsamcl.bsky.social · Jul 9

A lovely palaemon shrimp in the oyster hoisters today. #marinelife

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Ailsa McLellan @ailsamcl.bsky.social · Jul 15

4/4 #Salmon farms in Scotland are foreign owned. They pay relatively little tax, and strive for automation, whilst leaving us a legacy of pollution and damage. This is the antithesis of what should constitute a 'Good Food Nation' @mairigougeon.bsky.social

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Ailsa McLellan @ailsamcl.bsky.social · Aug 27

Another example of the stranglehold the foreign owned #Salmon industry has over the @snp.org
This contentious site was given the go ahead despite overwhelming objections. #regulatorcapture
www.salmonbusiness.com/first-semi-c...

First semi-closed salmon farm in Scotland approved following appeal

Scottish ministers approve Loch Long semi-closed salmon farm after appeal. Scottish ministers have granted planning permission for Loch Long Salmon’s proposed semi-closed containment system (SCCS) far...

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Enviro Matters @enviromatters.bsky.social · 23d

Encouraging read, been going on for a while in NZ & Nordics

“The high-level math that we’ve come up with is a financial break-even point of about 4 to 5 years, over a 10-year time span, you’re definitely coming out way ahead"

@ailsamcl.bsky.social

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Electric boats splash down in rural Maine's coastal waters

Battery-powered vessels are catching on in the U.S. and globally as the tech improves. In Maine's Casco Bay, early adopters are using e-boats on oyster…

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Andy Paton @andypaton.bsky.social · 5d

Helen, very many thanks 👍

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Rob Edwards @robedwards5.bsky.social · 14d

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Salmon farmer accused of blocking UK investigations into alleged animal rights breaches

Faroese firm Bakkafrost wants to ban campaigner Don Staniford from going within 15 metres of its fish farms

www.theguardian.com

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Andy Paton @andypaton.bsky.social · 7d

Still no word of explanation from Scottish Natural Heritage for the lack of any decision making on the action to be taken over the loss of the Golden Eagle, Merrick. What's going on with Nature Scot ? @theferret.scot @robedwards5.bsky.social

Andy Paton @andypaton.bsky.social · 7d

Please explain @naturescot.bsky.social cc @rspbscotland.bsky.social @scotparl.bsky.social

Raptor Persecution UK @raptorpersuk.bsky.social · 8d

17 months! What's the hold up? Why isn't this decision-making process a priority for NatureScot?

The consequences of this inaction were made v clear yesterday, with the suspicious disappearance of two more Golden Eagles in south Scotland.

#RaptorResearch

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Andy Paton @andypaton.bsky.social · 7d

Please explain @naturescot.bsky.social cc @rspbscotland.bsky.social @scotparl.bsky.social

Raptor Persecution UK @raptorpersuk.bsky.social · 8d

17 months! What's the hold up? Why isn't this decision-making process a priority for NatureScot?

The consequences of this inaction were made v clear yesterday, with the suspicious disappearance of two more Golden Eagles in south Scotland.

#RaptorResearch

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17 months (& waiting) for NatureScot to make decision on General Licence restriction relating to ‘shooting & killing’ of sleeping Golden Eagle called Merrick

The Scottish Government’s nature advisory agency, NatureScot, has been now been procrastinating for 17 months on whether to impose a sanction on an estate in relation to the ‘shooting and killing’ …

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Natalie Bennett @nataliegreenpeer.bsky.social · 9d

In one of the most nature-depleted corners of this battered planet, with #biodiversity in freefall

Raptor Persecution UK @raptorpersuk.bsky.social · 9d

Gosh, what a mystery. Whatever could have happened to them?

No bodies, no tags, no prosecutions, no accountability, no deterrent. This will continue.

#RaptorResearch #WildlifeCrime

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Two Golden Eagles ‘disappear’ in south Scotland – Police appeal for information

Press release from Police Scotland, 29 September 2025: APPEAL FOR MISSING GOLDEN EAGLE Detectives are appealing for information after a satellite-tagged golden eagle disappeared in the hills to the…

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Raptor Persecution UK @raptorpersuk.bsky.social · 14d

Press statement from Police Scotland 🔽

#RaptorResearch #WildlifeCrime #BirdingScotland #Ornithology

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Red Kite found dead in Perthshire confirmed to have been poisoned (banned pesticide + rodenticides)

Press release from Police Scotland (24 September 2025): BIRD OF PREY FOUND TO BE POISONED IN PERTH & KINROSS AREA Enquiries into the death of red kite are ongoing. On 22 June, 2025 a dead red k…

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Raptor Persecution UK @raptorpersuk.bsky.social · 9d

Gosh, what a mystery. Whatever could have happened to them?

No bodies, no tags, no prosecutions, no accountability, no deterrent. This will continue.

#RaptorResearch #WildlifeCrime

raptorpersecutionuk.org/2025/09/29/t...

Two Golden Eagles ‘disappear’ in south Scotland – Police appeal for information

Press release from Police Scotland, 29 September 2025: APPEAL FOR MISSING GOLDEN EAGLE Detectives are appealing for information after a satellite-tagged golden eagle disappeared in the hills to the…

raptorpersecutionuk.org

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