Dec 15, 2024 · Impact on other animals. There have been concerns that the sea lice which afflict farmed salmon could risk spreading to wild fish. The Scottish Environmental Protection Agency (Sepa), named 19 fish farms that were at high risk of contaminating wild salmon and trout. Wild Atlantic salmon were internationally classified as endangered in 2023, after global populations fell by 23 per cent between ...

Nov 10, 2024 · How are loved ones impacted by drug use? Research has found that on average for every person who has issues of substance abuse, 11 friends and family are impacted.. In 2021-22, drug use was recorded in 766 (1.7 per cent) pregnancies in Scotland, while 35 per cent of people who died due to drug use were the parents of children aged under 16. More than 500 children lost a parent or parental ...

Dec 2, 2024 · An estimated 35 to 48 million pheasants and five to 10 million partridges are reportedly released into the UK each year to be shot for sport.. A 2022 report from the UK Government’s Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) concluded that amidst the outbreak, releasing pheasants en masse resulted in “a very high likelihood” of infecting wild birds with the disease.

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Jan 21, 2024 · Community Land Scotland called for new laws to tackle the “extractive, monopoly land ownership of the corporates, investors and lairds”.. But Scottish Land and Estates, which represents landowners, said applying for the subsidies “is a hugely complex process” and claimed it was “highly unusual” for false claims to be made.Breaches were often a …

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Apr 1, 2024 · Alastair Majury is a former Tory Stirling councillor who, in 2015, reportedly used a social media account to deride benefit claimants, make derogatory remarks about Catholics and said the term Nazi is “an accurate description” of Scottish nationalists.. He was listed as a Scottish candidate in the caption of a photo taken at Reform’s Spring conference in February.

Mar 3, 2024 · Under new regulations introduced in 2022, Scottish Water has to take emergency measures to prevent the supply of water to consumers if it contains more than 100 nanograms of PFAS per litre of water.. None of the samples in 2023 came close to exceeding this threshold. But other countries, including the US and Denmark, have much stricter limits and the Royal Society of Chemistry recently called ...

Jun 16, 2024 · Scottish universities can charge students from the rest of the UK tuition fees of up to £9,250 per year. International students can be charged at much higher rates. Tuition fees from non-EU students, in particular, have become an increasingly vital part of the funding landscape. A Ferret analysis of each Scottish university’s most recent …

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