Named: the salmon farms rapped over animal welfare
In the past the UK Animal and Plant Health Agency kept secret the salmon farms it censured on animal welfare grounds. Now it has changed its mind.
Climate and the Environment
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Unmasked: the 138 ‘polluters’ at key climate talks
More than a hundred executives with links to industries blamed for pollution were permitted to take part in vital international
Watchdog helped pesticide firm avoid freedom of information
A Scottish Government watchdog has been caught advising a pesticide company how to avoid disclosure under freedom of information (FoI)
Troubled waters: communities at odds on fish farming
You can’t miss it as you cross one of Scotland’s most beautiful stretches of water. Right next to
‘We have to be optimists’: how can Scotland rebuild trust?
Scotland needs a radical shift in the way that power and influence are distributed to help address democratic deficits and
Revealed: how landowner lobbied minister on spaceport
Scotland’s biggest private landowner has been attacked as “manipulative” and “undemocratic” after The Ferret revealed that his company secretly
Mind the pay gap: quango chief execs paid more than £10m
The chief executives of quangos appointed by Scottish Government ministers were paid over £10m in total last year, leading to
Windfall: one third of Scotland’s biggest wind farms linked to tax havens
Nearly a third of Scotland’s biggest wind farms have owners with links to offshore tax havens in the Cayman
‘Big energy’ dominates lobbying of Scottish Government amid climate crisis
Questions have been raised over the power and influence of energy companies following analysis by The Ferret revealing how key
Trump lawyers ‘flood of complaints’ to stop golf course losing conservation status
Lawyers for Donald Trump’s Aberdeenshire golf course bombarded the Scottish Government’s wildlife watchdog with demands and complaints in
Sewage spilled into Scotland’s waterways more than 12,000 times
Sewage spilled directly into Scotland’s rivers, lochs and seas at least 12,000 times in one year, new figures
‘Revolving door’ between government and fishing industry criticised as ex-civil servant takes top role
A former civil servant with the Scottish Government has taken on a prominent role with a major fishing group to
Investigation launched over use of “seal scarers” by fish farms
The Scottish Government has launched an investigation after receiving complaints from environmental conservationists over the use of “seal scarers” by