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Mairi McAllan

Grouse shooting is under scrutiny.

Environment Plans to tighten up laws around grouse shooting

The first shipment of timber by sea from Troon harbour. Picture: contributed.

Business Eco-friendly West Coast tie-up taking timber transit off roads and onto sea

Environment Take a bough: How timber forests can help win climate and nature crises battle

Environment Funding for extra rangers at North east nature hot spots this summer

Business Deeside landholdings gain prestigious wildlife conservation accreditation

Home Farming: Land Reform Bill planned for next year

Home Woodland planting weathers the storm

Environment Felled: How storms have hit Scotland's tree-planting aims

Home Westminster and Holyrood split over gene editing policy

Columnists Water shortage fears are yet another warning about climate change

Environment Water emergency: Scottish Government outlines support to combat shortages

Environment Splash: Fife nudist beach among two new bathing waters in Scotland

Politics Ministers 'focused on future-proofing' Grangemouth amid fears over jobs

Home Woodland carbon code tightened in scramble for offset land

Environment In hot water: Health fears as Scotland’s lochs warm due to climate change

Home Grants aid native woodlands

Home Natural capital is the new wild west of financial investment

Home Register of interest in land control becomes law today

Columnists Question of who owns Scotland will not be settled by new register

Environment Campaign to tackle Scotland's 11,000 hectares of abandoned land

Environment Why young eagles are moving from the isles to Scotland's southern region

Environment Greens unhappy at new Scottish fox hunting Bill to

Home Crofters’ goose budget is cooked

Politics Area of sea larger than Edinburgh and Glasgow combined given special protection

Columnists More than just the dogs in the street know Johnson must go – Scotsman comment

Environment Deep secrets: Rockall Trench reveals new species living 2km below the sea

Home Expansion of commercial forestry means you can’t see the farmers for the trees

Home Green light for more small-scale woodlands

Home Striking the right balance with nitrogen use in farming - Brian Henderson

Environment 8 million trees damaged by Storm Arwen

Home See no weevil, hear no weevil

National Footballl club 'devastated' after Storm Arwen tears through stadium

Home Call for funding over new rules on slurry pollution

Environment Scotland to restore rare and unique Celtic rainforest

National COP26 not doing enough for global south, Scotland's environment minister warns

Home Scotland leading the way with ambitious woodland creation targets

People Community given £500,000 funding for mainland Britain's 'most remote pub'

Columnists SNP and Tories should unite in fight against climate change – Comment

Home £2m fund to fight eelworm threat

Columnists How a successful Scottish forestry sector is able to see the wood for the trees ...

Home Scottish Forestry acts to save peat

Transport Balearic Islands moved to Scotland's amber list

Environment Marine park and ‘wet farming’ test among schemes receiving share of £50m funding

Business Scotland’s timber transport infrastructure to benefit from £7 million of funding

Politics Three MSPs join Scottish Government ministerial ranks for first time

The Scotsman Top Stories

Weather Snow and temperatures of -8 forecast as Met Office issue warning across country

Politics ‘Politics can once again be a force for good’ - Keir Starmer

Transport Slow A9 dualling progress as deaths rise causes SNP 'considerable discomfort'