Scottish seabird conservation - action plan: consultation

Responding to this Consultation

Consultation Questions

This consultation seeks your views on the following questions:

1. Do you support the implementation of the Scottish Seabird Conservation Action Plan?

2. Do you agree that the key pressures to seabirds in Scotland are identified?

3. Have we captured the key actions needed to deliver the vision, aims and objectives and are there any missing? Do the actions raise any specific concerns?

4. Do you have any views on what measures we should use to monitor progress and success?

How to respond to this consultation

You are invited to respond to this consultation by 04 March 2025.

Please access and respond to this consultation using the Scottish Government's online consultation hub, Citizen Space.

You can save and return to your responses while the consultation is still open. Please ensure that consultation responses are submitted before the closing date of 04 March 2025 at 23:59.

If you are unable to respond using our consultation hub, please complete and return the Respondent Information Form which can be found within the supporting documents section of this publication.

We need to know how you wish your response to be handled. Without this form we will not be able to process your response. Please send the completed form with your response to:

marine_species@gov.scot

or

Protected Seas and Species Programme

Scottish Government

Area 1B North

Victoria Quay

Edinburgh

EH6 6QQ

If you have any enquiries please direct them to marine_species@gov.scot.

Handling your response

If you respond using the consultation hub, you will be directed to the About You page before submitting your response. Please indicate how you wish your response to be handled and whether you are content for your response to be published. If you ask for your response not to be published, we will regard it as confidential and will treat it accordingly.

All respondents should be aware that the Scottish Government is subject to the provisions of the Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2022 and would therefore have to consider any request made to it under the Act for information relating to the responses made to this consultation exercise.

To find out how we handle your personal data, please see our privacy policy: Privacy - gov.scot.

Next steps in the process

Where respondents have given permission for their response to be made public, and after we have checked that they contain no potentially defamatory material, responses will be made available to the public at Scottish Government consultations - Citizen Space. If you use the consultation hub to respond, you will receive a copy of your response via email.

Following the closing date, all responses will be analysed and considered along with any other available evidence to help us. Responses will be published where we have been given permission to do so. An analysis report will also be made available.

Comments and complaints

If you have any comments about how this consultation exercise has been conducted, please send them to the contact address above or to

marine_species@gov.scot.