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Ornithology Adviser - NatureScot
Starting salary: £35039
Hours: 35 hours
Contract: Permanent
Location: Any NatureScot office, with homeworking considered
We are Scotland’s nature agency. Scotland’s nature and landscapes are among our greatest assets. Nature gives us food and drinking water, energy, and timber. It contributes to a clean and healthy environment. And it improves our well-being and quality of life. We work to improve our natural environment in Scotland and inspire everyone to care more about it. So that all nature in Scotland – our key habitats and landscapes, all our green space and our native species – is maintained, enhanced, and brings us benefits. It is the job of all of us to achieve a balance in the sensitive management of our natural world in order to maintain and enhance biodiversity.
- Closing Date: 11/12/2023
- Location: Any NatureScot office, with homeworking considered
- Posted: 09/11/2023
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Operations Officer – Climate and Biodiversity – North - NatureScot
Starting salary £29,063
Hours: 35 hours
Contract: Permanent position
Location: Lerwick, some homeworking possible
Your role will focus on (a) working in a team to deliver NatureScot’s Development Advice Service, advising consulting authorities on the implications of proposals for Scotland’s nature, (b) providing advice on schemes covering agri-environment and climate, Peatland Action and Nature Restoration and (c) advising land managers on the impacts of their management proposals on protected areas. Other areas of work will include monitoring of protected areas, and proactive work to address climate change and biodiversity loss in local partnerships.
- Closing Date: 11/12/2023
- Location: Lerwick, some homeworking possible
- Posted: 09/11/2023
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- Leading Edge: Countryside Rangers - Maximising inclusiveness in events and nature spaces for mental health benefits
- Nature fund’s £156k award to protect threatened waders
- Spectacular year of ‘firsts’ on Scotland’s nature reserves
- Consultation: Connecting people and places - a draft policy statement on rangering in Scotland
- Scotland in world first for genetic diversity
- Survey reveals nature concern
- Renewed General Licence brings greater protection for Scotland’s wild birds
- Progress for pollinators hailed
- Seabird declines may be slowing
- Public urged to follow Covid-19 outdoor access guidance
- Majority of natural features in good condition
- Call for nature lockdown stories on Biodiversity Day
- Lead nature agency publishes beaver licensing statistics
- Trust responds to alarming beaver cull numbers
- Could you help stop mink in their tracks?
- Macduff sheep working to keep Giant hogweed at bay
- Scotland’s In Tune With Nature winners announced
- Nature fund to tackle ‘most at risk and vulnerable’ species
- Nature fund's latest £1.8m to save Scotland’s most threatened plants and wildlife
- More people spending time outdoors. New survey reveals importance of nature to Scotland’s recovery from Covid-19
- One quarter of native mammals now at risk of extinction in Britain
- Beaver survey to begin
- ARC welcomes peat extraction refusal
- World first as endangered skate egg hatches
- First of its kind business project invests in nature's future
- Butterflies on the increase
- Outdoors and nature engagement sustained post-lockdown
- Chough conservation effective but more action needed
- Huge potential for nature-based jobs boost
- Iconic species protected by marine designations
- New green recovery fund to help manage visitors at nature ‘hotspots’
- Wintering waterbirds on the increase
- Covid drives huge increase in use of urban greenspace
- Record numbers flock to NatureScot’s national nature reserves in 2020
- Tackling nature loss report – 2021 a ‘big year’ for nature
- Woodland bird recovery
- New Scottish wildlife crime investigator appointed
- Some of Scotland’s best-loved paths are being revamped with new funding to remove barriers and improve access for all.
- Risk of extreme droughts likely to increase in Scotland
- More action needed to help nature
- Survey finds beavers establishing strong presence in City of Perth
- Flapper skate protection
- Funding for community marine surveys
- Deer Working Group recommendations: Scottish Government response
- RSPB Scotland welcomes Scottish Government response to Independent Deer working group
- Majority of natural features in good condition
- NatureScot urges gardeners to go peat-free
- Trees for Life legal challenge to be heard at Scottish Court of Session
- Harbour seal census confirms east-west divide
- Beaver court case should lead to a win-win for nature and farmers
- ‘First time in over a century’ sea eagles return to Loch Lomond
- Nature agency calls on Scots to put water out for wildlife this summer
- Funding to restore nature and tackle biodiversity loss
- Storm Petrels breeding on Isle of May
- Satellites track "bog breathing" to help monitor peatlands
- Action plan for nature-based jobs
- Conservation success as beaver numbers double in Scotland
- Seabird numbers decline by almost 50%
- Varied fortunes for Scotland's wintering waterbirds
- It’s not too late to reverse biodiversity decline by 2030, UK’s five leading nature bodies say
- Legal win offers hope of new era for beavers and farmers
- Sniffer dogs help discover storm petrel colony on the Isle of May in a UK first
- £1 million for Forth habitat restoration
- NatureScot announces first new site for release of beavers in Scotland since Knapdale
- Winners announced at Scottish Nature Awards
- Breakthrough for Scotland’s beavers a win for nature, climate and farmers
- Nature fund awards £5m to tackle biodiversity loss and climate change
- 500 communities volunteer to help Scotland's nature recovery
- New funding for river restoration training
- Nature fund celebrates ‘1,500 football fields’ of new and improved habitats in Scotland
- Tree planting at Beinn Eighe increases woodland by 41%
- Half of Scots pledge to head outdoors more often and help nature
- Progress for pollinators: Projects across Scotland provided crucial help for bees, hoverflies and other pollinators in 2021.
- Measures to save capercaillie outlined
- South of Scotland golden eagle population reaches new heights thanks to novel research technique
- £600,000 for green health in Dundee, North Ayrshire and Highland
- Lessons for nature restoration and rewilding
- Successful peatland restoration on Rum nature reserve
- New funding for youth-led nature projects
- Ambitious green finance initiative launched
- Promising results from mountain hare survey
- UK Government Minister for Scotland backs UNESCO bid for The Flow Country
- Glasgow City Region’s peatlands set to help fight climate change
- New approaches for NatureScot to improve designated sites
- 30x30 and Nature Networks Projects Launch
- £4.2m lifeline for Scotland's most vulnerable species
- Avian flu task force announced
- Better Places Green Recovery funding awarded for 2022 visitor season
- Almost £5 million awarded to projects to fight climate change in Scotland
- Warmer summers cause butterfly increase in Scotland
- New beaver strategy for Scotland
- More than £500K announced for natural capital projects
- Green fund distributes £3m to enhance Scotland’s coasts and seas
- Four Nation Call for Nature to Remain at Top of Government Agenda
- Birds increase in urban areas
- Beaver release at new Loch Lomond site approved
- Highs and lows at NatureScot’s coastal nature reserves this year
- Scotland's wildlife struggling to recover from Climate Change and Biodiversity loss
- Almost 100 new Scottish sites identified to safeguard trees from climate change
- Funding to help nature projects grow