Wildfire Statement
Image by Dave Maric Scotland’s wildfire season last year was the most severe that has been recorded – with 241 wildfire incidents recorded in 2025 by The Scottish Fire and Rescue Service. Fast forward to the 15th of...
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Response to Recent Comments Made by John Swinney on Beavers
13th February 2025Dear Mr Swinney, In relation to your statement regarding lynx reported in the BBC News, we note thefollowing statement: “John Swinney said there needed to be a “considered discussion” around...
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Blame Climate, Not Castor
“Take beavers as an example. Touted as the answer to flooding and a host of other benefits....
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2023 Beaver Management Report: What We’re Thinking
Earlier in the week NatureScot published its 2023 beaver management report showing 77 beavers had...
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HELP: We need you to write to your MSP’s
As you may know, beavers are still being shot in numbers on Tayside farms and some of them are...
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Scottish Wild Beaver Group Manifesto : July 2023
(Current Advocacy Priorities – July 2023) Since 2019, beavers have been a protected species in...
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2022 Beaver Management Report: What We’re Thinking
The 2022 Beaver Management Report arrived last week, and there are some mixed feelings. The...
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2022: How Far we’ve come
2022 is a year of celebration for the Scottish Wild Beaver Group and Scottish beavers alike, so...
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Beaver Translocation Boost
Lorna Slater, Minister for Green Skills, Circular Economy and Biodiversity announced today that...
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An Open Letter to the Scottish Ministers
As we near the end of another interesting year for Scottish beaver conservation it has come to...
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Scottish Wild Beaver Group welcomes court ruling that Nature Scot issued licenses to kill beavers illegally.
The result of the Trees for Life legal challenge to the Scottish Government over its “lethal...
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A fifth of Scotland’s beavers lethally controlled in 2019
Today, Scottish Natural Heritage (SNH) released its Beaver Licensing Summary for 2019. The...
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