Scientists argue that research using animals is vital for the treatment and cure of human diseases like cancers. But experimenting on dogs and monkeys is controversial and critics say alternative methods should be used.
The Scottish Government is selling surveillance planes to save money and says drones are used to prevent illegal fishing. But critics argue that losing experienced pilots could mean criminality goes unchecked.
Ithaca Energy announced a major dividend on the eve of UK sanctions against companies operating in illegal Israeli settlements. A few weeks later it paid out £100m to a shareholder the UN says has ‘direct links’ to the occupied territories.
The Scottish Government has launched an investigation after a bullet shell was found during an inspection of a fish farm
A row has erupted between a private company and the Scottish Government over controversial devices called seal scarers which have
The use of drugs at salmon farms in Scotland has risen more than 50 times over the last six years,
The “illegal” dumping of masses of dead fish in sand dunes on a Hebridean beauty spot is finally set to
A Scottish Government watchdog has been caught advising a pesticide company how to avoid disclosure under freedom of information (FoI)
The Scottish Government is paving the way for the multinational salmon farming industry to start using a toxic pesticide blamed
Nearly half of Scotland’s salmon farms burn, dump or destroy millions of dead fish every year, according to Scottish
The Scottish Government has reprimanded salmon farming companies for breaking the rules on shooting seals — but has not taken any
Police have apologised to an anti-fish farming campaigner after he complained of being wrongly warned off from filming salmon
Pollution of Scotland’s lochs from a toxic fish farm pesticide has leapt 72 per cent in a year, according
A salmon farming company has been reprimanded for feeding a toxic pesticide to fish twice as often as permitted and
The amount of salmon killed by diseases and other problems at fish farms has reached record levels, with death rates
