Dee Ward
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@WildlifeEstates upland estate. Wildlife, biodiversity & nature. Sustainable farming,shooting,stalking. @ScotLandEstates Chair. 🇳🇴
Angus Glens, Scotland
Joined October 2019
Kicking off the @heathertrust Wildfire Ready Event hosted here at Rottal. There are a growing number of wildfires across the whole of Europe and this is going to definitely be a massive challenge to our society and rural communities and we need to learn to develop resilient
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Begbie warns Land Reform Bill will damage market – another voice added to criticism from lawyers, accountants, agents, forestry, house builders, rural businesses and even land reformists like Andy Wightman. Why isn’t @ScotGovRural listening?
dailybusinessgroup.co.uk
Scottish Financial Enterprise has warned a government minister that proposed reforms to land ownership could have "detrimental" consequences for the market.
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Next part of our Nature Restoration Fund project progressing well. One of 3 wetland restoration areas we are working on. @NatureScot @cairngormsnews @Southesknews
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Is anyone else noticing loads of Long Tailed Tits around at the moment ?
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WOW! @SteveReedMP has been slapped down by the UK Statistics Authority for falsely claiming on multiple occasions that Scotland's water is dirtier than England's. Will he apologise for misleading the House? https://t.co/xuDqEcR97k
uksa.statisticsauthority.gov.uk
Dear Mr Logan, Thank you for your email of 5 September to the Acting National Statistician regarding comments by the former Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, that drew...
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@DLumsden_MSP spoke passionately in today's Land Reform Bill proceedings to ensure the @scotgov protect rural workers in any attempts to break up rural estates. MSPs have a choice this evening to back those who are delivering for climate and nature, or leave them in the lurch.
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This 👇 is spot on and sums up precisely why business confidence is at rock bottom. It’s a cautionary tale about how not to run the economy of this country, and sadly we are all living the nightmare as they make one catastrophic error after another. Even more worryingly, unless
I have moved from being shocked and disappointed at the Treasury to being angry. I spent some time with an elderly client today who is confused and distressed over what to do, and a huge portion of responsibility for her upset rests with unprofessionalism from the Treasury.
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Save STV North - Sign the Petition! https://t.co/g7rkGFvRgX via @UKChange
change.org
Save STV North
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We are hosting this important event by the Heather Trust on how to be prepared for wildfire on Thursday 13th November at Rottal. See details on how to book below.
We’re delighted to welcome Eduardo from Spain, representing Vallfirest, as one of our guest speakers at the Wildfire Ready event next month! For the full event details and to get your tickets, visit our website: https://t.co/u17cILnQiP.
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It’s a shame they are not so strict or apply the same rules to the Water Companies @Feargal_Sharkey ? Woman fined £150 for pouring coffee down drain - BBC News
apple.news
Burcu Yesilyurt, who poured coffee down a drain in Richmond, welcomed the cancellation of the "disproportionate" fine.
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Works nearly completed on the re-meandered March Burn with our neighbours at Clova Estate. Funded by the Nature Restoration Fund @NatureScot with partners @RSPBScotland @Southesknews @cairngormsnews @ForestryLS @EsksBoard
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Shame on you @SteveReedMP remember when you promised to protect nature?
More sweeping reforms to make planning easier for development https://t.co/w3mApE6ZjU
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Punk beer, dead trees and a lost forest... In this week's featured editorial, @CA_TimB delves into #Brewdog's recent announcement of the sale of the Kinrara Estate in the Cairngorms to ‘natural capital asset manager’ Oxygen Conservation. https://t.co/ooa1MURfmy
countryside-alliance.org
Tim Bonner writes about how Brewdog’s failed “Lost Forest” shows how corporate greenwashing and profit-driven land grabs damage rural areas and communities.
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Bottom section of the re-wiggled burn is now connected and a new junction made with the South Esk. It already looks great - just wait a few years. Part of our @NatureScot NRF project.
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This is deeply concerning. Govt blocks release of joint intelligence committee report into the dire and imminent national security impacts exit from climate change & biodiversity loss. What are they trying to hide? Or is it a case of ignoring it and hope it goes away like in
Govt has blocked release of a joint intelligence committee report into the dire national security impacts expected from biodiversity loss. Was going to be announced at an event with the King this week https://t.co/0c79oiGUMF
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The brilliant Joyce Campbell @armadalefarm winning the Enhancing the environment awards so well deserved, a great ambassador for the farming industry. #HiH2025
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Thank you to @DeeWardRottal and @ScotLandEstates for the opportunity to join the Helping It Happen Awards. A fantastic celebration of the people and projects making a real difference across Scotland’s land and rural communities. Highlight of the evening was hearing that award
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Doors open! 🥂 Guests are arriving at the Sheraton Grand, Edinburgh, for #HiH2025. Our drinks reception, sponsored by @VirginMoney , is underway.
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