In an unprecedented move, as MSPs return to their constituencies for the summer parliamentary recess, eight organisations concerned with conservation, wild land and access to the countryside have jointly issued an open letter calling for greater protection for Scotland’s landscapes.
Leaders of the organisations – The Association for the Protection of Rural Scotland, the John Muir Trust, the Mountaineering Council of Scotland, the Munro Society, the National Trust for Scotland, Ramblers Scotland, The Scottish Rights of Way and Access Society and the Scottish Wild Land Group – between them representing over 350,000 members, welcome moves by the Scottish Government and Scottish Natural Heritage to safeguard Scotland’s landscapes but say that their existing proposals do not go far enough:
“We support the increased protection proposed for National Parks and National Scenic Areas, although this merely formalises the present de facto position.
“Such protection should apply also where development is proposed beyond their boundaries that would impact on the very qualities they were established to safeguard.”
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