Freedom of Information - Disclosure Log
Our Disclosure Log lists information we have released in response to Freedom of Information requests. This is not a comprehensive list of all our FOI responses. We have removed personal data from our responses because releasing personal data into the public domain would breach the Data Protection Act 2018. Some files may not be suitable for users of assistive technology. If you require an accessible version, please contact us at FOI@nature.scot quoting the case reference.
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March 2025
SIR178899 - National Access Forum – Election – Complaint
SIR178974 - Detecting fraud in Galloway National Park consultation
SIR178942 - Solar and BESS development at Rogerhill Farm
SIR178811 - Rural tourism support
SIR179256 - Evidence of Previous Discussion with SRSG re: Proposed New Condition Schedule 1 Licence
SIR179001 - Native woodland scheme at Schiehallion
SIR179088 - National Access Forum
SIR179095 - Equality, Diversity and Inclusion
SIR179090 - Licencing – follow-up
SIR179023 - SSSI Consents for Organised Events
SIR179154 - BAE Systems Dargavel
SIR179089 - Beaver Mitigation Measures – Follow-Up
SIR178679 - Schedule 1 Licences
SIR179168 - ‘Linking the Lochs’ - the Atlantic Salmon Trust
SIR179161 - Enquiry about the Isle of Rum
SIR179164 - Report by Dr Eleanor Gourevitch
SIR179503 - Results of Galloway National Park Consultation
SIR179138 - NatureScot Board Meeting 12 February 2025
SIR179159 - Galloway National Park - NatureScot and Schools
SIR179157 - Proposed Galloway National Park – Correspondence with Natural Resources Wales
SIR179158 - NatureScot Reporter Enquiry - Proposed Galloway National Park Consultation
SIR179184 - 2022 £140,000 Nature Restoration Funding -Belleisle and Seafield Golf Courses Ayr
SIR179269 - Civil/Structural Engineers employed by NatureScot
SIR179224 - Staff Working Remotely from Overseas
SIR179313 - Planning application at House of Rosskeen House, Invergordon planning ref 23/05466/FUL
SIR179302 - Bat Licence - House of Rosskeen, Invergordon Planning Ref. 23/05466/FUL
SIR179310 - Badger Ecologist All Operations- Licence 250769
SIR179300 - Staff, training, and procurement on Equality, Diversity, and Inclusivity
February 2025
SIR178737 - Causeymire Windfarm
SIR178620 - Cost of Beaver mitigation measures
SIR178474 - Bean Rigg mire (part of NNR)
SIR178461 - Licence applications for hunting with dogs for 2025
SIR178688 - Red Squirrel Capture/Re-location
SIR178636 - Application for a licence for the release of translocated beavers to Glen Affric
SIR178834 - Deer Management Groups and cull data
SIR178843 - Installation or repair of steps to access Oldmoreshore Beach
SIR178691 - Licencing criteria WCA
SIR178713 - Sitka/Capercaillie
SIR178693 - Video Production Procurement Data (Jan 2022-Jan 2025)
SIR178741 - North Ross Deer Management Group
SIR178282 - Impact of Game Birds
SIR178816 - Protection of ptarmigan from hunting
SIR178504 - ECP Coasts Recreational Survey
SIR178507 - Orkney goose project reports
SIR178893 - Causeymire Windfarm
January 2025
SIR178154 - Taynish Shelter Build Tayvallich Argyll
SIR177848 - OWNP TAG minutes etc
SIR178280 - Ptarmigan shot outside of the closed season
SIR178432 - Species Protection Plan for Clashindarroch II
SIR178239 - Dalkeith Country Park
SIR178331 - Compliance checks grouse code of practice
SIR178336 - Rivers Oykel and Cassley and the Kyle of Sutherland
SIR178305 - Scotland's beaver population size over time
SIR178443 - Operations Requiring Consent (ORC) Guidance
SIR178428 - Communication with SGA on change to Schedule 1 licence
SIR178332 - Deer or non-native species damage to protected areas
SIR178463 - Stobo Hope Predator Control
SIR178117 - South Deeside and North Angus Deer Management Group
SIR178337 - Orkney Stoats Project – Species in advertently caught in traps
SIR178482 - Taylor Wimpey Whitefields Development - Halbeath Dunfermline
SIR178476 - Deer Culls/Collisions
SIR178489 - Permission to work from outside the United Kingdom
December 2024
SIR177855 - Competence of Deer Stalkers
SIR177820 - Review of the Bats in Houses service
SIR177864 - Translocation Project Form(s): Atlantic Salmon - Aberdeenshire Dee SAC
SIR177974 - Licences for Bird of Prey Culls
SIR177950 - Galloway National Park
SIR177907 - Licensing scheme for grouse shooting – mapping
SIR177564 - Licences for fox hunting
SIR177722 - Parallel Roads of Lochaber SSSI
SIR178122 - Fair Trade Purchasing
SIR177977 - Wester Craiglockhart Hill and Community Woodlands declaration as a Local Nature Reserve
SIR178153 - Kirkcudbright Bird Flu
SIR177476 - Change of Approach to Licensing Guidance and Conditions - Grouse Moor Management
SIR178089 - Deaths of Birds of Prey in Scotland from windfarms
November 2024
SIR177503 - Chainsaw incidents & injuries
SIR177541 - Animals at risk Scotland
SIR177445 - Licensed visits to Sched 1 raptor nests
SIR177574 - NHI and NatureScot
SIR177571 - Deer Working Group
SIR177572 - Licences under the Hunting with Dogs (Scotland) Act 2023
SIR177721 - Deer management control agreements
SIR177990 - Multi-Functional Devices
SIR177989 - HR and Payroll Systems
SIR177683 - Coul Links, wildlife crime
SIR177784 - Paths For All / Ian Findlay Path Fund
SIR177847 - Beaver Licencing Function
October 2024
SIR177083 - Press, Media and Communications Staff and Cost
SIR176989 - Orkney Native Wildlife Project
SIR177134 - Deer Management Nature Restoration Orders
SIR177277 - Muirburn Licences River South Esk
SIR177197 - Cockenzie coal bunds removal
SIR177063 - Correspondence between NatureScot and T Dargie
SIR177398 - Cost of the Deer Working Group
SIR177335 - Greenland white-fronted goose - ‘Specially protected’
SIR177383 - Deer larders in Scotland
SIR177425 - Agricultural new entrants
SIR177387 - Staff / volunteer / contractor accommodation
SIR177430 - deaths of peregrine falcons and merlin from Avian flu
September 2024
SIR176563 - Galloway National Park
SIR176827 - Native Woodland Creation Schiehallion – Follow Up Request
SIR176935 - NatureScot paper on licenced control of gulls in Scotland
SIR176676 - Eradication of Stoats on Orkney
SIR176664 - Impact of releasing Game Birds
SIR176991 - Financial support to The Galloway National Park Association
SIR176772 - Corncrake annual counts and white-fronted geese, Isle of Coll
SIR176816 - Orkney Native Wildlife Project reports
SIR176776 - SE Link and SRSG Funding since 2017
SIR176850 - Licences for Hunting with Dogs
SIR176833 - Correspondence with SGA re: 'Who Monitors the Monitors?’
SIR176865 - Stobo planting proposals
SIR176862 - Nature Restoration Fund
SIR176897 - Enterprise Asset Management (EAM) software
SIR176875 - Redirect nature restoration funding towards council pay deals
SIR176923 - Brunt Hill Wind Farm consultee response