Freedom of Information - Disclosure Log
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January 2026
SIR182797 - Grouse moor licencing mapping
SIR182771 - Funding to Scottish Raptor Study Groups and Scottish Environment Link
SIR182774 - Better Places Fund - Chapelhope and Riskenhope Trusts
SIR182789 - Basis for NatureScot's statement on Loch of Strathbeg
SIR182790 - NatureScot review of onshore EIAR (Buchan Offshore Wind)
SIR182824 - Schedule 2 Review of Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981
SIR182690 - Licensing Applications Programmes
SIR182914 - Red and Roe Deer numbers on Abernethy Reserve
SIR182916 - Flapper skate nursery, Scapa Flow
SIR182919 - Funding for Atlantic Salmon Trust
SIR182825 - Surveys of Coille Coire Chuilc SSSI
SIR182945 - SSSI Consents for Events and Commercial Activity
December 2025
SIR182271 - East Loch Ericht Deer Management Group Minutes
SIR182309 - Sutherland Space Port Peat Restoration
SIR182310 - Mountain Hare licences
SIR182320 - Moray Firth SAC - Moray flow development
SIR182382 - Grouse Moor Licences
SIR182329 - Pentland Firth Islands casework
SIR182430 - Staff suspension on full pay
SIR182370 - FOI on staff based outside of Scotland
SIR182366 - Hunting Act 2023 Review
SIR182147 - Hospitality Expenditure
SIR182161 - Buchan Offshore Wind
SIR182450 - Deer/Wildlife Manager Costs
SIR182451 - Boylestone Quarry, Barrhead, Glasgow
SIR182452 - Filming requests Central Highland office
SIR182471 - Applications to cull birds of prey
SIR182487 - Information on late payments
SIR182579 - What Learning Management Platforms are in use
SIR182474 - Ministerial Statement on Seagull Control
SIR182475 - Gull Population Data and Related Correspondence
SIR182580 - Christmas party funding
SIR182611 - Beaver costs since 2009
SIR182542 - Pre-Application Engagement (Thurso / Pennyland / Banniskirk)
November 2025
SIR181738 - A832 Dundonnell closure - European Protected Species, MPA and survey-led alternatives
SIR182011 - Falconry or aviculture licences
SIR181800 - Habitat Appraisal survey Highland FWPM
SIR182130 - Clashindarroch Windfarm 2
SIR182057 - Funding to Scottish Land & Estates
SIR182051 - Fund to tackle disruptive seagull populations
SIR181854 - Loch Creran - effluent discharge
SIR182124 - Cost of Tackling Wildfires
SIR182259 - Fish Holm aquaculture development in Shetland
SIR182263 - Deer culls undertaken on Loch Choire estate by NatureScot since 2023
SIR182181 - Seagull summit details
SIR182164 - Muir Mhòr Offshore Wind Farm (Onshore Scoping Consultation)
SIR182182 - Assessment of Loch Maree as a site suitable beaver translocation
SIR182146 - Travel Expenses by Board Members and Senior Managers
SIR182218 - Advertising costs over last 10 years
SIR182241 - Correspondence about visits to Eagles nest
SIR182236 - Licence applications for the use of more than two dogs to flush to guns
October 2025
SIR181594 - RSPB Wards Visitor Hub (Loch Lomond SPA / Endrick Water SAC)
SIR181735 - Private Water Supply near Cruden Bay Oil Facility
SIR181783 - Gull Applications Made v's Approved
SIR181786 - Gull Management Licences
SIR181673 - Orkney Raven Control Changes
SIR181711 - Kinloch Castle, Isle of Rhum
SIR181809 - Wildlife Crime Incidents
SIR181811 - Endangered Species
SIR181736 - Closure of and major works on A832 along Dundonnell woods SSSI
SIR181740 - Gull Licensing Policy and Practice - policy
SIR181941 - Curlie Pond Montrose non-chemical plan with hydrology/outflow actions
SIR181845 - Whiteshore Cockles
SIR181844 - Minutes for the Seagull Summit held on 23rd September 2025
SIR182060 - Employees who failed their probationary period
SIR182001 - Mountain hare licences
September 2025
SIR181194 - Guga Hunt on Sula Sgeir
SIR181218 - Guga Hunt Sula Sgeir
SIR181276 - Firth of Forth SSSI
SIR180977 - Isle of Colonsay Estate
SIR180978 - Facility for Investment Ready Nature in Scotland, Project L-AND details
SIR181317 - Area wide gull licences Inverness and Nairn
SIR181151 - SSSI specimen prosecutions
SIR181349 - Guga Cull Sula Sgeir
SIR181351 - Products or services from Israel and pro Palestinian information
SIR181377 - Health risk assessment for the Guga Hunt Sula Sgeir
SIR181337 - Dalbuaick and Tolquohonie Plantations
SIR181350 - Citizen Engagement Platform
SIR181432 - Stromar Offshore Windfarm Onshore Scoping
SIR181379 - Code of practice Loch Ness Monster
SIR181452 - Beavers applications
SIR181573 - Out of Season Authorisation
SIR181433 - Applications for SSSI status for Loch Meallbrodden Area
SIR181475 - Guga Hunt Licensing Dates & Numbers Culled
SIR181528 - Guga Hunt - Financial and Commercial Aspects
SIR181527 - Guga Hunt - Legal. Ecological, Decision Making
SIR181604 - Destruction of a Twinflower population at Creag Bheithe Bheag
SIR181567 - Whitslaid Woodland Creation
August 2025
SIR180992 - Grouse license on land shown on attached map centred on OS coords. NN610305
SIR181072 - General Licence Restrictions - Additional Question
SIR180952 - Out Of Season Licenses
SIR181041 - Beaver management Buchlyvie
SIR181131 - Licence for Gannet at Sula Sgeir
SIR181026 - Licence application for Guga Hunt Soula Sgeir
SIR180994 - Change in gull licences
SIR181109 - Oldhall PPC permit application
SIR181025 - Agreements with City of Edinburgh Council for Arthurs Seat Carlton Hill SSSI
SIR181028 - Finance and HR Systems
SIR181207 - Guga Hunt Sula Sgeir
SIR181045 - Greenland White-fronted Geese and Mey Energy Projects
SIR181068 - Unacceptable Behaviour Policy
SIR180768 - Carmyle/Kenmuir Farm Development
SIR181114 - MoU with SEPA on pollution incidents on waterways
July 2025
SIR180573 - Contract Register, Procurement Strategy, and Contact Details
SIR180488 - Total amount spent - overtime, broken equipment, consultants, recruitment, and others
SIR180585 - Stromar Windfarm Onshore Consultation and Landfill Review
SIR180631 - Freshwater Pollution notifications from SEPA
SIR180667 - Peat remediation at the Sutherland Space Port
SIR180688 - Board meeting minutes
SIR180733 - Strontian Lead Mines
SIR180680 - Beaver Dam notching
SIR180681 - Stromar Offshore Wind Farm
SIR180694 - National Montane Bird Survey 2025
SIR180742 - Decisions Pending on General Licence restrictions
SIR180814 - Corporate Governance Benchmarking
SIR180771 - Gull Infestation and Public Health Risks
SIR180501 - Windfarms and Freshwater Pearl Mussels
SIR180615 - Contact and Advice Regarding Pike in Loch Laidon
June 2025
SIR180164 - Hunting with Dogs - Preventing Serious Damage - Licencing
SIR180130 - Individual declaration dates for Scotland statutory protected areas
SIR180160 - Sea Eagle Compensation Scheme
SIR180386 - Cost of Legal Services
SIR180317 - Glen Affric Beavers
SIR180367 - Wild wrasse fishery
SIR180395 - Golspie flooding update
SIR180353 - Licences to kill ravens in Orkney
SIR180481 - Contracts for Firewall, Anti-virus, Microsoft Enterprise Agreement, and Power BI
SIR180535 - Proposed Galloway National Park Costs
SIR180536 - Proposed Galloway National Park Costs
May 2025
SIR178972 - Grants awarded to Wildland Limited or Glenfeshie Limited
SIR179751 - Workplace Basic Details
SIR179766 - Warblaw Woodland Creation
SIR179744 - Glen Affric Beaver re-introduction
SIR179885 - Scottish Fossil Code
SIR179827 - Additional Licensing Condition for Scottish Raptor Study Group
SIR179822 - itt_53294 - Penetration testing & security consultancy
SIR179955 - ‘-Cide’ Use by NatureScot
SIR179912 - Prosecutions for foraging
SIR179911 - Foraging and picking of wild plants, and harvesting of shellfish
SIR180032 - Draft Muirburn Code, consultation response, and process questions
SIR180122 - Gulls License Rejections
SIR180203 - SALARIES AND JOB DESCRIPTIONS
SIR180129 - Galloway National Park
SIR180134 - Legal Advice on Schedule 1 Licence Condition
SIR180047 - Nature Restoration Fund
SIR180205 - Nature Restoration Fund FOI responses
April 2025
SIR179382 - Organisational Structure
SIR179361 - Gairloch Conservation Group Deer Management Unit
SIR179552 - Licences for Mountain Hare
SIR179463 - Osprey nest removed near Paxton House
SIR179553 - IS Contracts for Cloud Based Applications and Third-Party Hosting
SIR179120 - Hunting with Dogs - Development of Licensing Scheme
SIR179565 - Todrig Woodland Creation Scheme
SIR179562 - Cannich Wildfire 2023 spend
SIR179155 - Proposed Galloway National Park – Outside the Box
SIR179635 - Proposed Galloway National Park – Board Minutes 12 February 2025
SIR179599 - Licences for Mountain Hares
SIR179649 - Correspondence re. 23/05466/FUL AND 17/04318/SCRE – House of Rosskeen, Invergordon
SIR179813 - Costs incurred for Section 8 – Loch Choire
March 2025
SIR178899 - National Access Forum – Election – Complaint
SIR178974 - Detecting fraud in Galloway National Park consultation
SIR178942 - Solar and BESS development at Rogerhill Farm
SIR178811 - Rural tourism support
SIR179256 - Evidence of Previous Discussion with SRSG re: Proposed New Condition Schedule 1 Licence
SIR179001 - Native woodland scheme at Schiehallion
SIR179088 - National Access Forum
SIR179095 - Equality, Diversity and Inclusion
SIR179090 - Licencing – follow-up
SIR179023 - SSSI Consents for Organised Events
SIR179154 - BAE Systems Dargavel
SIR179089 - Beaver Mitigation Measures – Follow-Up
SIR178679 - Schedule 1 Licences
SIR179168 - ‘Linking the Lochs’ - the Atlantic Salmon Trust
SIR179161 - Enquiry about the Isle of Rum
SIR179164 - Report by Dr Eleanor Gourevitch
SIR179503 - Results of Galloway National Park Consultation
SIR179138 - NatureScot Board Meeting 12 February 2025
SIR179159 - Galloway National Park - NatureScot and Schools
SIR179157 - Proposed Galloway National Park – Correspondence with Natural Resources Wales
SIR179158 - NatureScot Reporter Enquiry - Proposed Galloway National Park Consultation
SIR179184 - 2022 £140,000 Nature Restoration Funding -Belleisle and Seafield Golf Courses Ayr
SIR179269 - Civil/Structural Engineers employed by NatureScot
SIR179224 - Staff Working Remotely from Overseas
SIR179313 - Planning application at House of Rosskeen House, Invergordon planning ref 23/05466/FUL
SIR179302 - Bat Licence - House of Rosskeen, Invergordon Planning Ref. 23/05466/FUL
SIR179310 - Badger Ecologist All Operations- Licence 250769
SIR179300 - Staff, training, and procurement on Equality, Diversity, and Inclusivity
February 2025
SIR178737 - Causeymire Windfarm
SIR178620 - Cost of Beaver mitigation measures
SIR178474 - Bean Rigg mire (part of NNR)
SIR178461 - Licence applications for hunting with dogs for 2025
SIR178688 - Red Squirrel Capture/Re-location
SIR178636 - Application for a licence for the release of translocated beavers to Glen Affric
SIR178834 - Deer Management Groups and cull data
SIR178843 - Installation or repair of steps to access Oldmoreshore Beach
SIR178691 - Licencing criteria WCA
SIR178713 - Sitka/Capercaillie
SIR178693 - Video Production Procurement Data (Jan 2022-Jan 2025)
SIR178741 - North Ross Deer Management Group
SIR178282 - Impact of Game Birds
SIR178816 - Protection of ptarmigan from hunting
SIR178504 - ECP Coasts Recreational Survey
SIR178507 - Orkney goose project reports
SIR178893 - Causeymire Windfarm
January 2025
SIR178154 - Taynish Shelter Build Tayvallich Argyll
SIR177848 - OWNP TAG minutes etc
SIR178280 - Ptarmigan shot outside of the closed season
SIR178432 - Species Protection Plan for Clashindarroch II
SIR178239 - Dalkeith Country Park
SIR178331 - Compliance checks grouse code of practice
SIR178336 - Rivers Oykel and Cassley and the Kyle of Sutherland
SIR178305 - Scotland's beaver population size over time
SIR178443 - Operations Requiring Consent (ORC) Guidance
SIR178428 - Communication with SGA on change to Schedule 1 licence
SIR178332 - Deer or non-native species damage to protected areas
SIR178463 - Stobo Hope Predator Control
SIR178117 - South Deeside and North Angus Deer Management Group
SIR178337 - Orkney Stoats Project – Species in advertently caught in traps
SIR178482 - Taylor Wimpey Whitefields Development - Halbeath Dunfermline
SIR178476 - Deer Culls/Collisions
SIR178489 - Permission to work from outside the United Kingdom
December 2024
SIR177855 - Competence of Deer Stalkers
SIR177820 - Review of the Bats in Houses service
SIR177864 - Translocation Project Form(s): Atlantic Salmon - Aberdeenshire Dee SAC
SIR177974 - Licences for Bird of Prey Culls
SIR177950 - Galloway National Park
SIR177907 - Licensing scheme for grouse shooting – mapping
SIR177564 - Licences for fox hunting
SIR177722 - Parallel Roads of Lochaber SSSI
SIR178122 - Fair Trade Purchasing
SIR177977 - Wester Craiglockhart Hill and Community Woodlands declaration as a Local Nature Reserve
SIR178153 - Kirkcudbright Bird Flu
SIR177476 - Change of Approach to Licensing Guidance and Conditions - Grouse Moor Management
SIR178089 - Deaths of Birds of Prey in Scotland from windfarms
November 2024
SIR177503 - Chainsaw incidents & injuries
SIR177541 - Animals at risk Scotland
SIR177445 - Licensed visits to Sched 1 raptor nests
SIR177574 - NHI and NatureScot
SIR177571 - Deer Working Group
SIR177572 - Licences under the Hunting with Dogs (Scotland) Act 2023
SIR177721 - Deer management control agreements
SIR177990 - Multi-Functional Devices
SIR177989 - HR and Payroll Systems
SIR177683 - Coul Links, wildlife crime
SIR177784 - Paths For All / Ian Findlay Path Fund
SIR177847 - Beaver Licencing Function
October 2024
SIR177083 - Press, Media and Communications Staff and Cost
SIR176989 - Orkney Native Wildlife Project
SIR177134 - Deer Management Nature Restoration Orders
SIR177277 - Muirburn Licences River South Esk
SIR177197 - Cockenzie coal bunds removal
SIR177063 - Correspondence between NatureScot and T Dargie
SIR177398 - Cost of the Deer Working Group
SIR177335 - Greenland white-fronted goose - ‘Specially protected’
SIR177383 - Deer larders in Scotland
SIR177425 - Agricultural new entrants
SIR177387 - Staff / volunteer / contractor accommodation
SIR177430 - deaths of peregrine falcons and merlin from Avian flu
September 2024
SIR176563 - Galloway National Park
SIR176827 - Native Woodland Creation Schiehallion – Follow Up Request
SIR176935 - NatureScot paper on licenced control of gulls in Scotland
SIR176676 - Eradication of Stoats on Orkney
SIR176664 - Impact of releasing Game Birds
SIR176991 - Financial support to The Galloway National Park Association
SIR176772 - Corncrake annual counts and white-fronted geese, Isle of Coll
SIR176816 - Orkney Native Wildlife Project reports
SIR176776 - SE Link and SRSG Funding since 2017
SIR176850 - Licences for Hunting with Dogs
SIR176833 - Correspondence with SGA re: 'Who Monitors the Monitors?’
SIR176865 - Stobo planting proposals
SIR176862 - Nature Restoration Fund
SIR176897 - Enterprise Asset Management (EAM) software
SIR176875 - Redirect nature restoration funding towards council pay deals
SIR176923 - Brunt Hill Wind Farm consultee response
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