Meet the Helping It Happen finalists: Conservation Award
Blog Post
Our Helping It Happen Awards highlight how landowners and rural businesses across Scotland play a key role in enabling and supporting success in rural areas. We tell the story of exactly how estates...
Undisturbed
Blog Post
This week on our blog, the National Wildlife Crime Unit tells us a little more about their social media campaign, Undisturbed. The campaign, which encourages photographers and drone users to minimise...
A receding hare line? Not on our moorlands
Blog Post
Managing land in Scotland is a subject that often triggers passionate debate, none more so when it comes to the care of our native mountain hare.
Green Party MSP Alison Johnstone this week launched a...
Unanticipated and delightful
Blog Post
Allargue Estate sits snugly nestled in the centre of the Cairngorms National Park in the lee of the Cairngorms massif. It covers an area of just over 2,300 hectares and comprises a multitude of...
World Curlew Day
Blog Post
I took to myself as pleasure,
the gannet’s noise and
the voice of the curlew
instead of the laughter of men,
the screaming gull
instead of the drinking of mead.
The Seafarer, Anglo-Saxon...
Celebrating national parks at 70
Blog Post
Saturday 6 April marked the start of #DiscoverNationalParks - a two-week celebration across the UK with events and experiences to inspire all people of all ages and interests to get outdoors, explore...
2019 Member Surveys
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A key element of SLEs work on policy development and political representation is the gathering of facts and figures on our members and their businesses. Over the course of 2019 we will be building up...
Wildlife Estates Scotland appoints new project officer
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A new project officer has been appointed by Wildlife Estates Scotland (WES) as the land management scheme aims to double its accredited acres.
Caroline Pringle, an experienced environmental...
Farmland waders - Populations in peril
Blog Post
A once common sight across Scottish farmland, breeding waders have declined in recent decades, not only in Scotland but across the UK and North-West Europe. These declines are primarily due to...
Drimnin Estate - Conserving the natural beauty
HIH Case Study
The 7000-acre estate on the western tip of the Morvern Peninsula has invested time into conservation schemes to ensure the area remains a rich, wildlife haven. Combining rugged coastline with inlets...
Countryside organisations support official review of grouse moor management
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Countryside and wildlife organisations today appealed for the Scottish Government-led review into grouse moor management to be allowed to take its course in the interests of rural Scotland.
The...
Bird of prey persecution at an all-time low
News
Following publication today of the RSPB ‘Birdcrime’ report, Scottish Land & Estates – whose membership includes sporting estates across Scotland – issued the following statement.
David Johnstone...