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      • Increasing participation
        • NatureScot Calendar 2021 - photo competition
        • In Tune with Nature
        • Young people and the outdoors
        • Community Introductions
        • Plunge In! Coasts and Waters Community Fund
        • Demonstrating the links
        • Poetry Competition
        • People and nature: learning through doing
        • Measuring participation
      • Recreation policy
        • Managing upland paths
        • Managing local path networks
        • Managing long distance routes
        • Ranger Services in Scotland
      • Taking account of access rights
      • Raising awareness of the outdoors
      • Access and recreation management: technical advice
    • Carbon management
      • Managing nature for carbon capture
      • Restoring Scotland's Peatlands
    • Managing coasts and seas
      • Marine Restoration and Enhancement
      • Fisheries
      • Seaweed harvesting
      • Oil and gas
      • Coastal development and marine pollution
      • Marine litter impact
      • Scottish Marine Wildlife Watching Code
      • Marine non-native species
    • Managing freshwater
      • Catchment management
      • Flood management
      • Freshwater aquaculture
      • Freshwater fisheries
      • Freshwater non-native species
      • River engineering
      • Water pollution
    • Managing the land
      • Nature Restoration at the Landscape Scale
      • Scottish Rural Development Programme
        • Evaluation and monitoring of the Agri-Environment and Climate Scheme
      • Agriculture and Land use policy development
      • Farming and crofting
        • Land Use Policy Group
        • The Role of Agroecology
          • Dehesa - A Spanish Agroforestry Farming System
        • Types of farming
          • Arable farming
          • Crofting
          • Hill farming
          • Lowland livestock and dairy farming
        • Farming and the wider community
        • Farming and climate change
        • Support for farmers and land managers
        • Integrated pest management
      • Forests and woodlands
        • Woodland and climate change
        • Woodland expansion across Scotland
        • Woodland benefits
        • Managing our woodlands
        • Woodland condition
        • Native versus non-native woodland
        • Raptors and forestry
        • History of Scotland’s woodlands
      • Habitat networks
        • Central Scotland Green Network (CSGN) - 2021 Habitat Connectivity Map
        • Concerns about habitat networks
        • Dispersal ability
        • Habitat fragmentation
        • Habitat network parts and connections
        • Habitat networks and climate change
        • Habitat networks in policy and practice
          • Habitat networks in policy and legislation
            • Land managers: relevant policy
            • Managers of conservation land and greenspace: relevant policy
            • Planners and policy developers: relevant policy
          • Putting habitat networks into practice
            • General guidance on implementation
            • Guidance for development management planners
            • Guidance for land managers
            • Guidance for managers of conservation land and greenspace
            • Guidance for planners and policy developers
        • Modelling a network
          • Modelling assumptions and limitations
          • Modelling processes and outputs
        • Modelling case studies
        • Types of network
        • Habitat Connectivity Index
      • Rocks and landforms
      • Soil management
        • Managing Scotland’s soils
        • Soil carbon management
      • Upland and moorland
        • Muirburn Code
        • Grazing
        • Management of wet habitats
        • Woodland expansion in the uplands
    • Managing wildlife
      • Avian influenza (bird flu)
      • Hebridean Mink Project
      • Managing Scotland's wild deer
        • Our role
        • Policy, Guidance and Best Practice
          • Deer management methods
          • Deer impacts
          • Deer counting
          • Deer population models
          • Deer diseases
        • Managing deer for climate and nature
          • Deer Work Programme
          • Deer Management Round Table
          • Deer Management Priority Areas
          • Code of Practice on Deer Management
        • Collaborative deer management
        • Deer in and around towns and cities
        • Deer vehicle collisions
        • Funding
        • Frequently Asked Questions
        • Incentive Scheme pilots
      • Managing geese
        • Islay Sustainable Goose Management Strategy
        • Islay Goose Management Scheme
        • Kintyre Local Goose Management Scheme
        • Solway Barnacle Goose Management Scheme
        • South Walls Local Goose Management Scheme
        • Uist, Coll and Tiree Barnacle Goose Management Scheme
        • Compatibility checks
        • Payments
        • State aid
      • Managing Feral pigs in Scotland
      • Orkney Native Wildlife Project
      • Sea Eagle Management Scheme
        • Sea Eagle Management Scheme - Enhanced Shepherding
      • Uist Wader Research
      • Shared Approach to Wildlife Management
      • Wildlife management contacts
      • Wildlife welfare
  • Protected areas and species
    • 30 by 30 and Nature Networks
      • Nature Networks Framework
      • 30 by 30 Framework
      • 30 by 30 explained
      • Co-design approach
      • Development of OECMs
      • Big Biodiversity Layer Development
    • Protected areas
      • Local designations
        • Country parks
        • Local Landscape Areas
        • Local Nature Conservation Sites
        • Local Nature Reserves
        • Regional parks
        • Geological Conservation Review sites
      • National designations
        • National Scenic Areas
          • Background, guidance and policy
          • Development management
          • Special Qualities
            • Special Landscape Qualities effects assessment (SLQ) - Consultation
          • Enjoy National Scenic Areas
        • National Parks
          • A Proposed New National Park in Scotland - Have your say
          • Full Technical Consultation – Proposed National Park in Galloway
          • A National Park proposal for Galloway - Reporter Plan
          • New National Park online technical workshop - Recordings of presentations
          • Frequently Asked Questions
          • The value of National Parks in Scotland
        • National Nature Reserves
          • Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)
        • Other national designations
        • Sites of Special Scientific Interest
        • Sites of Special Scientific Interest - Consents
      • International designations
        • Biosphere reserve
        • Biogenetic reserve
        • The Emerald Network
        • Geoparks
        • Ramsar site
        • World Heritage Site
        • European sites
          • Special Areas of Conservation
          • Special Protection Areas
          • Protection of European sites
          • Management of European sites
          • Marine European sites
      • Marine Protected Areas
        • 2024 MPA Report to Parliament
        • Survey and monitoring
        • Scotland’s MPA network
        • OSPAR Marine Protected Areas
        • Scottish MPA advice
        • NCMPA selection
        • MarPAMM - Regional MPA Management Plans
        • Enhancing protection of Scotland's seas
      • Protected Areas for Nature Review
      • Conservation orders
        • Land
        • Marine
        • Nature
        • Restoration
      • Notices
      • Site condition monitoring
        • How we monitor features
        • View monitoring results
        • Use of monitoring results
        • Assessment of condition
        • Condition target
        • Pressures on feature condition
        • Looking to the Future
      • Management agreements
    • Protected species
      • Protected species A-Z guide
        • Amphibians and reptiles
        • Badgers
        • Bats
        • Beaver
          • Understanding the Ecosystem Engineer
          • 10th International Beaver Symposium
          • Beaver Mitigation Scheme
          • Beaver information and resources from Scotland and beyond
          • Beaver Salmonid Working Group
          • Key reports on beavers in Scotland
          • Scottish Beaver Trial
          • Tayside Beaver Study Group
          • Translocation of beavers in Scotland
          • Protected species: beavers
          • Scotland's Beaver Strategy 2022-2045
          • Beavers in Scotland report
          • Scottish Beaver Advisory Group
          • Management Framework for Beavers in Scotland
          • Beaver news and blogs
        • Birds
        • Deer
        • Dolphins, whales and porpoises
        • Fish
        • Hares
        • Invertebrates
        • Otters
        • Pine martens
        • Plants and fungi
        • Red squirrels
        • Seals
        • Shrews
        • Water voles
        • Wildcats
      • Wildlife crime
      • Your responsibilities
        • Developers, builders and architects
        • Ecological consultants
        • General public
        • Regulatory authorities
        • Researchers
        • Teachers and trainers
        • Woodland managers
      • Reintroducing native species
        • National Species Reintroduction Forum
        • Scottish Code for Conservation Translocations
      • Scottish Invasive Species Initiative
      • Invasive non-native species
        • Invasive non-native plants
        • How to help tackle invasive non-native species
        • Identify and report invasive non-native species
        • Law on non-native species in Scotland
        • Native range
        • Species control agreements and orders
      • LIFE Nature and Biodiversity projects
        • Pearls in Peril
      • Legal framework
        • The Habitats Directive and Habitats Regulations
          • European protected species
          • The Habitats Directive: species protection requirements
          • The Habitats Regulations: implementing species protection
        • Offshore Marine Regulations 2017
        • The Birds Directive and Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981
    • Licensing
      • Online licensing services
      • Species licensing legislation
      • European protected species licensing
      • Species licensing A–Z guide
        • Beavers
          • Licences for development
          • Licences for land management
          • Licences for possession
          • Licences for surveys and research
          • Licence forms and guidance
        • Badgers
          • Licences for development
          • Licences for land management
          • Licences for surveys and research
          • Licences to prevent serious damage
          • Possession of specimens
        • Bats
          • Licences for development
          • Advice for homeowners
          • Licences for land management
          • Licences for possession
          • Licences for surveys and research
          • Licences for tree works
        • Birds
          • Licences for photography
          • Licences for possession
          • Licences for public health and safety and air safety
          • Licences for surveys, research and ringing
          • Licences to control predatory species
          • Licences to prevent serious damage
          • General licences for birds
          • Registration of captive birds of prey
        • Deer
          • Deer authorisations
          • Deer returns
          • Fit and competent status
          • Review of Deer Authorisations
        • Dogs
        • Dolphins, whales & porpoises
        • Fish
        • Freshwater pearl mussels
        • Red grouse
        • Hares
        • Invertebrates
        • Great crested newts & natterjack toads
          • Licences for development
          • Licences for land management
          • Licences for possession
          • Licences for surveys and research
        • Otters
          • Licences for development
          • Licences for land management
          • Licences for possession
          • Licences for surveys and research
        • Pine martens
        • Plants and fungi
        • Red squirrels
        • Seals
        • Shrews
        • Water voles
        • Wildcats
          • Licences for development
          • Licences for land management
          • Licences for possession
          • Licences for surveys and research
      • Muirburn licensing
      • Non-native species licensing
      • Species protection plan
      • Licensing process
      • Licence forms and guidance
      • Licensing news
        • Frequently Asked Questions
      • Trap registration
      • Licensing Data
    • Priority marine features in Scotland's seas
      • Feature Activity Sensitivity Tool (FeAST)
    • Safeguards beyond protected areas
      • Water Framework Directive
      • Environmental Liability Directive
      • Marine Strategy Framework Directive
  • Placemaking and Green Infrastructure
    • Green Infrastructure
      • Green roofs and living walls
      • Buildings and biodiversity
      • Sustainable Drainage Systems
      • Transport and other infrastructure
      • Nature-rich Towns and Cities
    • The Place Principle
    • Open space audit and strategy
    • Greenspace Map
  • Contributing to a healthier Scotland
    • The benefits of Green Health
    • Green health projects
    • Our Natural Health Service
      • Promoting green health
      • NHS Greenspace
      • Green Health Partnerships
        • Dundee
        • Highland
        • Lanarkshire
        • North Ayrshire
  • Social and economic benefits of nature
    • Natural Capital
      • Testing a Natural Capital approach
      • Farming with Nature
        • Biodiversity Audit
          • Privacy Statement
          • Project Update –  June 2023
        • Natural Capital Assessment Tool - A Whole Farm Approach
        • Piloting an Outcomes Based Approach in Scotland (POBAS)
        • A natural capital tool for Scotland
      • Scotland's Natural Capital Asset Index
        • Natural Capital Asset Index - Technical Background
        • Scotland's Natural Capital Asset Index - 2023 (data to 2021) - Update Summary
        • The Natural Capital Asset Index 2023 - comparison document
    • Food and drink
      • Foraging
      • Game
      • Food and drink industry
      • Local produce
      • Scotland’s Natural Larder
      • Venison
      • Wildfowl
    • Tourism
    • Why invest in nature? Short films
    • Nature-based jobs and skills
    • Working for Nature
  • Young People - Learning Outdoors and Developing Skills
    • Learning in local greenspace
      • Greenspace Map for Outdoor Learning
      • Beyond your boundary - easy steps to learning in local greenspace
        • Why learn in local greenspace
        • Finding your local greenspace
        • Accessing your local greenspace
        • Using your local greenspace
        • Improving your local greenspace
        • Whole school approach to learning in local greenspace
        • Further information
          • Educational policies and drivers for learning in local greenspace
          • Collaboration for successful learning in local greenspace
          • Planning tools for learning in local greenspace
          • Acknowledgements and thanks
      • Case studies
        • Learning and Play at Neilsland and Earnock Local Nature Reserve
        • Dundee - draft page
        • Learning in Local Greenspace with Easter Carmuirs Primary School - a case study
        • Patna Primary School - a case study
        • Beckford Primary School and the Rowan Cottage Nurture Group
        • St Paul’s Primary School
      • Learning in Local Greenspace films
      • The Learning in Local Greenspace project
    • Nature Discovery Map Scotland
    • Teaching in Nature
    • Outdoor learning at NNRs
    • Topics of interest to secondary students
    • Schools Camera Trapping Project
    • Activities for your class
    • Grants for outdoor learning visits
    • NatureScot and Youth Engagement
  • Landscape
    • Landscape Character Assessment
      • What is Landscape Character Assessment?
      • Landscape Character Assessment in Scotland
        • Landscape Character Assessment in Scotland – Landscape Evolution and Influences
      • Scottish Landscape Character Types Map and Descriptions
    • Framework for landscape policy
      • European Landscape Convention
      • NatureScot Landscape Policy Framework
    • Coastal Character Assessment
    • Landscape policy and guidance
      • Landscape and land management
      • Biodiversity, geology and soils
      • Health and the economy
      • Historic environment
      • Wild land
        • Wild Land Area descriptions and assessment guidance
    • Landscape tools and techniques
      • Environmental assessment: landscape
      • Landscape and Visual Impact Assessment
      • Landscape sensitivity studies
      • Landscape evaluation
      • Masterplanning
    • Managing landscape change
    • Our landscape role
    • Scotland's Landscape Monitoring Programme
    • Scotland’s Landscape Charter
• Scotland's Biodiversity
  • Scotland's Biodiversity - What is biodiversity?
  • Benefits of Biodiversity
  • Biodiversity - what can you do?
    • The Volunteer Mountain Hare Survey
    • Citizen Science for biodiversity
  • Key pressures on biodiversity
  • Scottish Biodiversity Strategy
    • Convention on Biological Diversity (COP16)
    • Scotland's Biodiversity Strategy 2022-2045
      • Nature Heroes
        • Robert Dale, Lochhouses Farm, East Lothian
    • An ecosystem approach
      • How to apply an ecosystem approach
      • Ecosystem approach case studies
      • Ecosystem services - nature’s benefits
    • Biodiversity Strategy reporting
    • Biodiversity Duty
      • Biodiversity Duty Reports
    • Local Biodiversity Partnerships
    • Scottish Biodiversity List
  • Species on the Edge (SotE)
    • About the Programme
  • Make Space For Nature
    • Make Space For Nature - Supporting Information - Gaelic version
    • Make Space For Nature - Summer
    • Make Space For Nature - Autumn
    • Make Space For Nature - Winter
    • Make Space For Nature - Spring
    • Podcasts
    • Campaign Toolkit
  • Helping Scotland's Pollinators
    • Pollinator Strategy for Scotland 2017-2027
    • Get busy - get involved!
    • Pollinator - resources
  • Where to find data