Supporters of the Save the Monadhliath Mountains (SMM) campaign have welcomed today’s (Tuesday 17 January) decision by the Highland Council’s Planning Application Committee to object to proposals for a large onshore wind farm at Allt Duine located on the edge of the Cairngorms National Park, near the village of Kincraig. The planning application will now [...]

Members of Highland Council’s planning committee are today riding the funicular railway up Cairngorm to assess the impact that the proposed Allt Duine wind farm in the Monadhliath will have on the view from the Ptarmigan restaurant. They will then return to make their decision on the planning application at 2.30pm. Conservation charity The John [...]

The John Muir Trust (JMT) says that it is delighted to have received money for a boat to access its most remote property. The JMT was awarded £6,265 by the People’s Postcode Trust, a grant-giving charity, funded entirely by players of the People’s Postcode Lottery. The Trust has been carrying out ecological restoration on Li [...]

The community on the Isle of Eigg is campaigning against a planned fish farm to be sited off the coast of the island. The Eigg Heritage Trust has issued the following statement, “Eigg is owned and managed (including the foreshore) by the Isle of Eigg Heritage Trust, a community led organisation whose aims include taking [...]

The John Muir Trust (JMT), the UK's leading wild land conservation charity, is dismayed to see that another festive season has been used by the Scottish Government to bury bad news. The Trust notes that the announcement post-Christmas, of approval of the East extension to the Muaitheabhal wind farm in South Lewis potentially brings further [...]

A new Scottish deer code comes into effect this month, with a focus on cooperative and voluntary deer management across the country. The code, developed by Scottish Natural Heritage, is aimed at anyone involved in deer management, including lowland tenant farmers, recreational stalkers, crofters and upland deer managers. As part of the Wildlife and Natural [...]