Biodiversity - strategic framework: consultation analysis

A summary and analysis of responses received to our public consultation on Scotland’s strategic framework for biodiversity 'Tackling the nature emergency', which ran from September to December 2023.


Annexe 1 – List of Organisations

Local Authorities/Community Councils:

  • Aberdeen City Council
  • Aberdeenshire Council
  • Angus Council
  • Balloch and Haldane Community Council
  • City of Edinburgh Council
  • Community Greenspace Team, North Lanarkshire Council
  • Dumfries and Galloway Council
  • Dundee City Council
  • East Ayrshire Council
  • East Dunbartonshire Council
  • East Renfrewshire Council
  • Falkirk Council
  • Fife Council (Planning Services)
  • Fossoway and District Community Council
  • Glasgow City Council
  • Moray Council
  • North Ayrshire Council
  • Perth and Kinross Council
  • Renfrewshire Council
  • Scottish Borders Council
  • Shetland Islands Council
  • The Highland Council
  • Trossachs Community Council
  • West Dunbartonshire Council

NGOs/Charities/Trusts:

  • Action West Loch
  • Argyll Bird Club
  • Atlantic Salmon Trust
  • Bat Conservation Trust
  • Buglife
  • Butterfly Conservation
  • Campaign for a Scottish Borders National Park (CSBNP)
  • Campaign for National Parks
  • Community Land Scotland
  • Community of Arran Seabed Trust (COAST)
  • Deveron, Bogie and Isla Rivers Charitable Trust; River Deveron District Salmon Fishery Board
  • Edinburgh Communities Climate Action Network (ECCAN)
  • Fish Legal
  • Forth Rivers Trust
  • Friends of Loch Lomond and the Trossachs / Helensburgh and District Access Trust (HADAT)
  • Galloway and Southern Ayrshire UNESCO Biosphere
  • Galloway National Park Association
  • Game & Wildlife Conservation Trust
  • Green Action Trust
  • Hebridean Whale & Dolphin Trust
  • Huntly Swift Group – NES Swifts
  • IUCN UK Peatland Programme
  • John Muir Trust
  • Laudato Si' Group (Catholic green group)
  • Marine Conservation Society
  • National Biodiversity Network Trust
  • National Trust for Scotland
  • Northern Corridor Community Volunteers
  • Nourish Scotland
  • Open Seas
  • Our Seas
  • Outer Hebrides Fisheries Trust
  • Paths for All
  • Plantlife
  • Plantlife Scotland
  • Ramblers Scotland
  • RSPB Scotland
  • SCOTLAND: The Big Picture
  • Scottish Badgers SCIO SC034297
  • Scottish Environment LINK
  • Scottish National Parks and Action to Protect Rural Scotland
  • Scottish National Parks Strategy Project
  • Scottish Wildlife Trust
  • Seawilding
  • Six Degrees Edinburgh
  • Soil Association Scotland
  • St Andrews Botanic Garden Trust
  • Steamship Sir Walter Scott Trust
  • Stockfree Farming
  • Sustainable Inshore Fisheries Trust (SIFT)
  • The Conservation Volunteers (TCV)
  • Trees for Life
  • Trustee, FOLLAT
  • Volunteer Scotland
  • West Sutherland Fisheries Trust
  • Wiltshire Swifts
  • Woodland Trust Scotland

Unions/Associations/Federations/Societies:

  • Association of Deer Management Groups
  • Association of Environmental Clerks of Works
  • Association of Local Environmental Records Centres
  • Botanical Society of Britain and Ireland's Committee for Scotland
  • Botanical Society of Scotland
  • British Association for Shooting and Conservation (Scotland)
  • British Ecological Society
  • Cairngorms Business Partnership
  • Communities Inshore Fisheries Alliance
  • Confederation of Forest Industries
  • Europarc Atlantic Isles – section of Europarc for UK and Ireland
  • Fisheries Management Scotland
  • IUCN UK National Committee's Protected Areas Working Group (PAWG)
  • Law Society of Scotland
  • Loch Lomond & The Trossachs National Park Tourism Destination Group
  • Mineral Products Association Scotland
  • Moray Firth Coastal Partnership
  • National Farmers' Union of Scotland (NFU Scotland)
  • Nature Friendly Farming Network
  • Outer Hebrides Biological Recording
  • ReThink Nature
  • Royal Zoological Society of Scotland
  • Salmon Scotland
  • Scotch Whisky Association (SWA)
  • Scottish Anglers National Association
  • Scottish Countryside Rangers' Association
  • Scottish Creel Fisherman's Federation
  • Scottish Crofting Federation
  • Scottish Farming and Wildlife Advisers' Group
  • Scottish Fishermen's Federation
  • Scottish Gamekeepers Association
  • Scottish Land & Estates
  • Scottish Organic Stakeholders Group
  • Scottish Red Meat Industry Resilience Group
  • Scottish Renewables
  • Scottish Rewilding Alliance
  • Scottish Seaweed Industry Association (SSIA)
  • Shetland Fishermen's Association
  • SOLACE (Society of Local Authority Chief Executives)
  • Solar Energy UK
  • South Skye Seas Initiative
  • Sustaining North Berwick
  • Swifts Local Network: Swifts & Planning Group
  • The Coastal Communities Network, Scotland
  • The Community Woodland Association
  • The Metropolitan Glasgow Strategic Drainage Partnership
  • The National Allotment Society
  • The Royal Society of Edinburgh
  • United Kingdom Environmental Law Association
  • Upper Deeside and Donside Land Management Group
  • Western Isles District Salmon Fisheries Board

Governmental Arm's-Length Bodies or Other Public Sector:

  • Cairngorms National Park Authority
  • Children and Young People's Commissioner Scotland
  • Convention of Scottish Local Authorities
  • Crown Estate Scotland
  • Environmental Standards Scotland
  • Historic Environment Scotland
  • Loch Lomond & The Trossachs National Park
  • National Museums Scotland
  • Public Health Scotland
  • Scottish Canals
  • Scottish Enterprise
  • Scottish Environment Protection Agency
  • Scottish Water
  • South of Scotland Enterprise
  • Zero Waste Scotland

Research Institutes/Universities:

  • Scottish Biodiversity Information Forum
  • Scottish Rainforest Education Centre
  • University of Edinburgh, Royal (Dick) School of Veterinary Studies, the Roslin Institute, and the Institute of Ecology and Evolution
  • Scotland's Rural College (SRUC) / SAC Consulting
  • Hydro Nation Chair Research and Innovation Programme
  • Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh
  • Jeremy Benn Associates Consulting
  • The Wildlife Information Centre (TWIC)
  • South West Scotland Environmental Information Centre (SWSEIC)
  • Fife Nature Records Centre
  • Scottish Association for Marine Science
  • Scottish Chough Forum
  • Rural Policy Centre
  • Chartered Institute of Ecology and Environmental Management
  • Institute of Chartered Foresters
  • Institute of Environmental Management and Assessment
  • The James Hutton Institute

Private Sector:

  • Bakkafrost Scotland
  • BayWa r.e. UK Ltd
  • Cooke Aquaculture Scotland Limited
  • Ecus Ltd
  • Électricité de France (EDF)
  • Environment Bank Limited
  • Highlands Rewilding
  • Invercauld Estate
  • Orsted
  • Scottish and Southern Electricity Networks
  • Scottish and Southern Electricity Networks (Distribution)
  • Scottish Power
  • Scottish Power (Energy Networks)
  • Scottish Sea Farms
  • Simply Blue Group
  • SSE Renewables (SSER)

Contact

Email: biodiversity@gov.scot

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