Formal Board Paper 1 Annex 1.16 - Blue and green infrastructure
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Formal Board Paper 1 Annex 1.16 13 March 2026
Paper 1
Annex 1.16
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Liveable places
Schedule 16: Blue and green infrastructure
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Schedule 16: Blue and green infrastructure
March 2026
Schedule contents
Requirements addressed in this schedule Links to evidence Summary of evidence Policy context National Planning Framework 4 Legislation and national documents Key agency documents National Park Authority documents Catchment management plans Local authority documents Community action plans Other documents Baseline This section provides baseline information on the following matters:
- Blue and green infrastructure in the natural environment, including:
- Protected sites
- Priority habitats
- Water quality
- Natural flood management
- Soils
- Snow cover
- Minerals and aggregates
- Blue and green infrastructure in the built environment, including:
- Open space
- Community growing spaces and allotments
- Core paths and public rights of way
- Vacant and derelict land
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- Reservoirs
- Flood defences
- Sustainable drainage systems
- Water treatment and supply Evidence gaps Summary of stakeholder engagement Summary of implications for Proposed Plan Statements of agreement Statements of dispute
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Requirements addressed in this schedule
Table 1 Information required by the Town and Country Planning (Scotland) Act 1997, as amended, regarding the issue addressed in this schedule.
| Section | Requirement |
|---|---|
| Section 15(5)(a) | the principal [physical], cultural, economic, [social], built heritage and [environmental] characteristics of the district. |
| Section 15(5)(b) | the principal purposes for which the land is used. |
| Section 16(2)(a) | To take into account- |
| i. The National Planning Framework and | |
| ii. Any local outcomes improvement plan (within the meaning of section 6 of the Community Empowerment (Scotland) Act 2015) for the part of their district to which the local development plan relates, Any registered local place plan (see schedule 19) that is for the part of their district to which the local development plan relates. | |
| iii. | |
| Section 16(2)(b) | Are to have regard to such information and considerations as may be prescribed. |
| Section 16(2)© | May have regard to such other information and considerations as appear to them to be relevant. |
| Section 16B(3)(a) | The evidence report is to set out the planning authority’s view on the matters listed in section 15(5) for land in the part of the authority’s district to which the local development plan will relate, |
| Section 16B(3)(e) | Include such other matters as are prescribed. |
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| Section | Requirement |
|---|---|
| Section 16B(4)© | The evidence report is also to include a statement on the extent to which the views expressed under paragraphs (a) and (b) have been taken into account in the report. |
| Section 264A | In the exercise, with respect to any land in a National Park, of any power under the planning Acts, special attention shall be paid to the desirability of exercising the power consistently with the National Park Plan as adopted under section 12(7)(a) of the National Parks (Scotland) Act 2000 (asp 10). |
Links to evidence
Legislation
- CNPA003 — Town and Country Planning (Scotland) Act 1997
- CNPA004 — National Park (Scotland) Act 2000
- CNPA059 — Crofters (Scotland) Act 1993
- CNPA634 — Natural Environment (Scotland) Bill as passed
- CNPA1274 — The Environmental Authorisations (Scotland) Regulations 2018
National documents
- CNPA008 — National Planning Framework 4
- CNPA076 — Scottish Vacant and Derelict Land Survey 2023
- CNPA084 — Scottish Biodiversity Strategy to 2045: Tackling the Nature Emergency in Scotland
- CNPA085 — Scottish Biodiversity Delivery Plan 2024 – 2030
- CNPA099 — Aggregate minerals survey for Great Britain, 2023
- CNPA107 — Scottish Government Infrastructure Investment Plan for Scotland 2021 – 2022 to 2025 – 2026
- CNPA124 — Scottish Government’s ‘Green Infrastructure: Design and Placemaking’ (2011)
- CNPA200 — Scottish Outdoor Access Code
- CNPA238 — Scottish Government Draft Planning Guidance: Biodiversity
- CNPA234 — Updated Scottish Government policy on protecting Ramsar sites 2025
- CNPA242 — Framework for 30 by 30 in Scotland
- CNPA244 — Developing with Nature guidance
- CNPA245 — Scottish National Adaption Plan (2024 – 2029)
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- CNPA247 — Pollinator Strategy for Scotland 2017 — 2027
- CNPA249 — Scotland’s Forestry Strategy 2019 — 2029
- CNPA252 — Water-Resilient Places: A Policy Framework for Surface Water Management and Blue – Green Infrastructure 2021
- CNPA270 — Strathspey Land Management Plan 2021 – 2031
- CNPA468 — Curriculum for excellence through outdoor learning
- CNPA508 — Scotland’s National Water Scarcity Plan 2020
- CNPA668 — Physical Activity for Health: Scotland’s National Framework 2024
Key agency documents
- CNPA128 — Scottish Water Strategic Plan – A sustainable future together
- CNPA329 — Nature Networks Toolbox
- CNPA353 — Scottish Water Climate Change Adaptation Plan 2024
- CNPA393 — Our Sustainable Future Together: Long-Term Strategy
- CNPA469 — NatureScot: Young People – Learning Outdoors and Developing Skills
- CNPA611 — Framework for Nature Networks in Scotland
- CNPA612 — NHS Grampian Biodiversity Strategy 2025 – 2030
- CNPA613 — NHS National Services Scotland Environmental and Sustainability Strategy 2022 – 2040
- CNPA656 — Open Mosaic Habitat on Previously Developed Land
- CNPA662 — NatureScot Management of Road Verges for Biodiversity report
- CNPA1373 — NatureScot Grasslands Thematic Document
National Park Authority documents
- CNPA010 — Cairngorms National Park Partnership Plan 2022 – 2027
- CNPA016 — Cairngorms National Park Local Development Plan (2021)
- CNPA027 — Cairngorms Youth Action Team Place Standard Tool Engagement 2024
- CNPA028 — Cairngorms National Park Gypsy / Traveller Engagement Report 2024
- CNPA058 — Grantown Grammar School Place Standard Tool Engagement 2024
- CNPA097 — Cairngorms National Park Local Development Plan 3: Strategic Flood Risk Assessment 2024
- CNPA187 — Cairngorms National Park Core Paths Plan 2015 (Review and public consultation underway (until 31 August 2025)
- CNPA253 — Cairngorms Nature Action Plan 2019 — 2024
- CNPA254 — Cairngorms Nature Action Plan 2019 – 2024 Final Report 2024
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- CNPA255 — Cairngorms National Park Forest Strategy 2018
- CNPA257 — Cairngorms National Park Authority Biodiversity Duty Report
- CNPA330 — Identifying a Cairngorms National Park Nature Network
- CNPA681 — Kingussie High School Higher Criminology Students Place Standard Tool Engagement 2024
- CNPA682 — Kingussie High School S1 Geography Students Place Standard Tool Engagement 2024
- CNPA683 — Kingussie High School S3 Geography Students Place Standard Tool Engagement 2024
- CNPA833 — Cairngorms Local development plan place standard tool engagement with Kingussie High School Youth Forum 2025
- CNPA834 — Local development plan place standard tool engagement with the Cairngorms National Park Junior Rangers 2025
- CNPA836 — Highland Council Place Planning engagement — Aviemore and Grantown-on-Spey 2025
- CNPA1104 — Cairngorms National Park Local Development Plan engagement — gamification approach
- CNPA1105 — Local Development Plan engagement – Planning Power with Cairngorms 2030
- CNPA1356 — Topic: Blue and green infrastructure — engagement version
Local authority documents
- CNPA620 — Aberdeenshire Core Path Plan
- CNPA621 — Highland Council Core Path Plan
- CNPA622 — Perth and Kinross Council Cycle Network Masterplan
- CNPA636 — Aberdeenshire Local Outcomes Improvement Plan 2017 – 2027 (website)
- CNPA637 — Angus Community Plan 2022 – 2030
- CNPA638 — 2024 – 2027 Highland Outcome Improvement Plan
- CNPA639 — Moray Local Outcomes Improvement Plan v2
- CNPA640 — Perth and Kinross Community Plan (Local Outcomes Improvement Plan) 2022 – 2032
- CNPA1091 — 2024 – 2027 Highland Outcome Improvement Plan – Delivery Plan
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Community action plans
- CNPA064 — Blair Atholl Community Action Plan: Looking to 2030
- CNPA065 — Grantown-on Spey Community Action Plan: Looking to 2030
- CNPA066 — Kingussie Community Action Plan: Looking to 2030
- CNPA125 — Dalwhinnie Community Action Plan: Looking to 2030
- CNPA127 — Kincraig Community Action Plan: Looking to 2030
- CNPA133 — Strathdon Community Action Plan: Looking to 2030
- CNPA331 — Dulnain Bridge Community Action Plan: Looking to 2030
Catchment partnership documents
- CNPA292 — Dee Catchment Management Plan Summary
- CNPA293 — Dee Catchment Partnership Delivery Plan 2022 – 2027
- CNPA294 — Spey Catchment Management Plan 2023- 2030
Other relevant material
- CNPA614 — Stalled Spaces – delivering community and environmental benefits through temporary greenspace scoping report
- CNPA1376 – Scottish School Grounds Survey (2025)
- CNPA1377 – Plantlife’s Managing Grassland Road Verges- a best practice guide
- CNPA799 – Natural England — Carbon Sequestration by Habitat- a review of the Evidence
- CNPA1378 — Water temperature and the growth of Ameletus inopinatus (Ephemeroptera: Ameletidae) in the Cairngorms, Scotland
- CNPA1379 — UK’s long-lasting snow patch melts away for 10th time in 300 years
- CNPA1380 – Forest Research — Ash dieback (Hymenoscyphus fraxineus)
- CNPA798 – IUCN – About Peatlands
Data sources
- CNPA021 — Wild Land Areas 2014
- CNPA073 — Scottish Public and Crown Estate Land
- CNPA077 — Scottish Vacant and Derelict Land data – Scotland
- CNPA086 — Carbon rich soils
- CNPA087 — Carbon and Peatland map 2016
- CNPA088 — Peatland condition
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- CNPA089 — Peatland ACTION completed reported hectares
- CNPA090 — Peatland ACTION completed restoration footprints
- CNPA260 — NatureScot SiteLink
- CNPA261 — Protected site condition
- CNPA262 — Special Areas of Conservation
- CNPA263 — Special Protection Areas
- CNPA264 — Ramsar Wetlands of International Importance
- CNPA265 — Sites of Special Scientific Interest
- CNPA266 — National Nature Reserves
- CNPA267 — Biogenetic Reserves
- CNPA268 — Royal Society for the Protection of Birds Reserves
- CNPA269 — National Forest Estate Forest Parks Great Britain
- CNPA273 — Scotland Land Cover Map 2022 – EUNIS Level 1
- CNPA275 — National Forest Inventory 2023
- CNPA276 — Native Woodland Survey of Scotland
- CNPA296 — Scottish Environment Protection Agency Riparian Vegetation Planting Opportunities (25m)
- CNPA297 — Scottish Environment Protection Agency water classification hub
- CNPA388 — Scottish Environment Protection Agency Flood Mazard Maps
- CNPA470 — Outdoor Learning Directory
- CNPA615 — Nature30 Sites
- CNPA616 — Scottish Core Paths
- CNPA617 — The Speyside Way
- CNPA618 — The Deeside Way
- CNPA619 — Sustrans National Cycle Network (Public)
- CNPA623 — Habitat Map of Scotland
- CNPA624 — Scotland Land Cover Map 2022 – EUNIS Level 2
- CNPA625 — Scotland Land Cover Map – Change 2020 – 2022
- CNPA626 — National Vegetation Classification (NVC)
- CNPA627 — The Geological Conservation Review
- CNPA628 — Peatland ACTION peat depth and condition
- CNPA629 — Scotland’s Soils Web – National Soil Map of Scotland
- CNPA630 — Scotland’s Environment Web – BGS Bedrock
- CNPA631 — Scotland’s Environment Web – Superficial Layer
- CNPA632 — National-Scale Land Capability for Agriculture
- CNPA633 — Ordnance Survey Open Green Space layer
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- CNPA641 — UK Lakes Portal
- CNPA642 — Scotland Greenspace Map
- CNPA643 — Cairngorms National Park Grassland Mapping Project 2020 – 2022 – Polygons
- CNPA645 — Scottish Environment Protection Agency River Recovery Potential
- CNPA653 — Scottish Environment Protection Agency Recommended Riparian Corridors
- CNPA654 — Scottish Environment Protection Agency Obstacles to Fish Migration
- CNPA655 — Scottish Environment Protection Agency Loch Classification
- CNPA657 — Gardens and Designed Landscapes (Historic Environment Scotland)
- CNPA658 — The Munros (Walk the Highlands)
- CNPA659 — The Corbetts (Walk the Highlands)
- CNPA660 — Buglife’s Important Invertebrate Areas (IIAs)
- CNPA661 — Plantlife’s Important Plant Areas (IPAs)
- CNPA1374 — Scottish Sustainable Drainage Systems database
- CNPA1375 — Sustainable Drainage Systems Design Manual
Consultation material
- CNPA852 — Grantown Society response to blue-green infrastructure
- CNPA1016 – Scottish Forestry response to consultation on blue green infrastructure, play sport and recreation and policy monitoring
- CNPA1134 – SEPA response to blue-green infrastructure
- CNPA1340 — Evidence report engagement responses
Summary of evidence
Policy context
National Planning Framework 4
National Planning Framework 4 (CNPA008) includes a specific policy (Policy 20 Blue and Green Infrastructure) that aims to protect and enhance blue and green infrastructure and their networks. Its outcomes are to ensure blue and green infrastructure are an integral part of early design and development processes; are designed to deliver multiple functions including climate mitigation, nature restoration, biodiversity enhancement, flood prevention and water management; and communities benefit from accessible, high-quality blue, green and civic spaces.
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Green and blue infrastructure involves incorporating natural elements like parks, green spaces, and wildlife habitats to enhance biodiversity, mitigate climate change effects, and improve overall quality of life.
This could involve policies to protect and expand existing green spaces, create new greenspace through development, and establish ecological corridors. The blue element focuses on water bodies, including rivers and lochs. This might include measures to protect water quality, manage flood risks, and enhance recreational opportunities along rivers.
Local development plans should be informed by relevant, up-to-date audits and/or strategies, covering the multiple functions and benefits of blue and green infrastructure. The spatial strategy should identify and protect blue and green infrastructure assets and networks; enhance and expand existing provision including new blue and/or green infrastructure. This may include retrofitting. Priorities for connectivity to other blue and/or green infrastructure assets, including to address cross-boundary needs and opportunities, should also be identified.
Local development plans should encourage the permanent or temporary use of unused or under-used land as green infrastructure. Where this is temporary, this should not prevent future development potential from being realised.
Local development plans should safeguard access rights and core paths, including active travel routes, and encourage new and enhanced opportunities for access linked to wider networks.
The following National Planning Framework 4 policies are listed as key connections to Policy 20 and are relevant to this evidence base:
Sustainable Places
Policy 1 Tackling the climate and nature crises Policy 2 Climate mitigation and adaptation Policy 3 Biodiversity Policy 4 Natural places Policy 5 Soils Policy 6 Forestry, woodland and trees Policy 7 Historic assets and places Policy 8 Green belts Policy 13 Sustainable transport
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Liveable Places
Policy 14 Design, quality and place Policy 15 Local Living and 20 minute neighbourhoods Policy 18 Infrastructure first Policy 19 Heat and cooling Policy 16 Quality homes Policy 21 Play, recreation and sport Policy 22 Flood risk and water management Policy 23 Health and safety
Productive Places
Policy 27 City, town, local and commercial centres Policy 29 Rural development
National Planning Framework 4 confirms that infrastructure includes green and blue infrastructure and provides the following definitions:
- Green Infrastructure – features or spaces within the natural and built environment that provide a range of ecosystem services
- Blue Infrastructure – water environment features within the natural and built environments that provide a range of ecosystem services. Blue features include rivers, lochs, wetlands, canals, other watercourses, ponds, coastal and marine areas including beaches, porous paving, sustainable urban drainage systems and raingardens.
Green and Blue Infrastructure contributes to the following National Planning Framework 4 qualities of successful places:
- Quality 1 — Healthy
- Quality 2 — Pleasant
- Quality 4 — Sustainable
Green and Blue Infrastructure contributes to the National Planning Framework 4 cross-cutting outcomes:
- Reducing greenhouse gas emissions
- Improving biodiversity
- Lifelong health and wellbeing.
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Legislation and national documents
National Parks (Scotland) Act 2000
The National Park has four distinct aims as set out in The National Parks (Scotland) Act 2000 (CNPA004). As outlined in Schedule 1: Plan outcomes, these will be amended by the Natural Environment Scotland (Scotland) Bill (CNPA634) once enacted. These are, as to be amended by the Natural Environment (Scotland) Bill:
- To conserve and enhance the area’s natural and cultural heritage.
- To promote sustainable management and use of the area’s natural resources.
- To promote public understanding and enjoyment of the area’s natural and cultural heritage.
- To promote sustainable economic, social and cultural development of the area’s communities.
All of the aims are relevant to the matters discussed in this schedule. The aims are all to be pursued collectively. However, if there is conflict between the first aim and any of the others, greater weight is given to the first aim (as set out in Section 9(6) of the 2000 Act).
Crofters (Scotland) Act 1993
The Crofters (Scotland) Act 1993 (CNPA059), as amended by the Crofting Reform etc Act 2007, Crofting Reform (Scotland) Act 2010, and Crofting (Amendment) (Scotland) Act 2013, forms the legislative framework that governs the use of croft land in Scotland. The act sets out the definition for crofts and crofters and sets out duties crofters must meet to occupy croft land, including duties relating to residency, maintenance, cultivation and use.
Scottish Biodiversity Strategy to 2045: Tackling the Nature Emergency in Scotland
The Scottish Biodiversity Strategy (CNPA084) sets out actions for addressing the twin crises; Global Climate Emergency and Nature Emergency. These priorities seek to halt the loss of biodiversity and help Scotland reach the goal of ‘Nature Positive’ by 2030 and to have restored and regenerated biodiversity across the county by 2045.
This Strategy identifies six objectives which have shaped the development of actions to deliver Scotland’s high-level goals, continuing progress towards halting the loss of biodiversity and being nature positive by 2030. They are:
- Accelerate restoration and regeneration.
- Protect nature on land and at sea, across and beyond protected areas.
- Embed nature-friendly farming, fishing and forestry.
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- Protect and support the recovery of vulnerable and important species and habitats.
- Invest in nature.
- Take action on the indirect drivers of biodiversity loss.
The Strategy’s outcomes for land by 2045 are as follows:
- Ecosystems will be diverse, healthy, resilient and deliver a wide range of ecosystem services.
- Protected areas will be larger, better connected and in good condition.
- The abundance and distribution of species will have recovered and there will be no loss of diversity within species.
- Scotland’s internationally important species will have increased in numbers and have healthy resilient populations.
- Natural capital will be embedded in policy making.
- Nature-based solutions, such as tree-planting, peatland and blue carbon habitat restoration, will be central to our efforts to deliver NetZero and adapt to climate change.
- Harmful invasive non-native species (INNS) will be managed so that established invasive non-native species no longer degrade native habitats and species or impede their restoration and regeneration and new introductions are managed quickly and effectively.
- Biodiversity as a concept will be understood and valued across the population and embedded in educational curriculums
- Nature Networks across our landscapes will underpin the resilience and health of species and habitats.
- Farmland practices will have resulted in a substantial regeneration in biodiversity, ecosystem and soil health and significantly reduced carbon emissions while sustaining high quality food production.
- Management of deer ranges, grouse moors and upland agriculture will be contributing to the regeneration of biodiversity in upland areas.
- Forest and woodland management will have led to sustainable natural regeneration; a greater diversity of woodland species; increased woodland cover with a healthy understorey, enhanced woodland connectivity; and improved integration of trees into other land uses.
- Soil health will have been improved by tackling loss of organic carbon, erosion, compaction, and the impacts of grazing, air pollution and climate change, and will function as a nature-based solution to flooding, erosion and biodiversity loss.
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- The actions we take to improve biodiversity will create new green jobs and economic opportunities to supporting thriving communities.
- Towns and cities will include nature-rich environments close to all communities, contributing to Nature Networks and measurable increases in urban biodiversity.
- Multi-functional urban nature-based solutions will enable people and biodiversity to adapt to our changing climate by cooling the urban environment and managing extreme rainfall events, with blue and green infrastructure designed and managed to benefit biodiversity, provide habitats and allow wildlife to move through urban areas.
The Strategy’s outcome for rivers, lochs and wetlands by 2045 is as follows:
- The extent of restored catchments and improvements in ecological status of rivers, lochs and wetlands will have increased with waterbodies in good condition.
- Riparian woodland will have expanded reducing the average temperature of our rivers and burns, leading to increases in freshwater fish species and other wildlife.
- A substantial, widespread and ongoing programme of peatland restoration will have led to the majority of Scotland’s peatlands being in good condition, a net sequester of carbon with thriving wildlife and biodiversity.
- The extent, condition, connectivity and resilience of wetlands, including floodplain wetlands and pond habitats will have significantly improved.
- Beavers, salmon recovery and riparian woodland will be established as key ecological components of restored rivers and wetlands.
Further information and implications of the Strategy are contained within Schedule 5: Natural heritage and Schedule 19: Flood risk and water management.
Scottish Biodiversity Delivery Plan 2024 – 2030
Five-year Delivery Plans will set out in detail the actions needed to deliver the 2045 term vision and its outcomes. The first Plan 2024 – 2030 (CNPA085) was published in conjunction with the Scottish Biodiversity Strategy (CNPA084). Priority actions are described under the six objectives set out in the Biodiversity Strategy.
Relevant actions linked to Blue-green Infrastructure under each of the objectives include:
Objective 1: Accelerate restoration and regeneration:
- Introduce Statutory Nature Restoration Targets.
- Introduce a programme of Ecosystem restoration including:
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- Using spatial evidence identify and facilitate six exemplar large scale landscape restoration partnership projects with significant woodland components by 2025 and establish management structures, with restoration work progressing by 2030.
- Implement Scotland’s strategic approach for Scotland’s rainforest which aims to improve its condition and health so that it can regenerate and expand whilst providing benefits to communities.
- Continue our Peatland ACTION programme investing £250 million over 10 years to restore 250,000 hectares of degraded peat by 2030.
- Develop and implement the Scottish Plan for Invasive Non-Native Species (INNS) Surveillance, Prevention and Control.
- Substantially reduce deer densities across our landscapes in parallel with ensuring sustainable management of grazing by sheep to improve overall ecosystem health.
- Enhance water and air quality and undertake water management measures to enhance biodiversity and reduce negative impacts.
- Ensure grouse moor management sustains healthy biodiversity.
Objective 2: Protect nature on land and at sea, across and beyond protected areas:
- Ensure that at least 30% of land and sea is protected and effectively managed to support nature in good health by 2030 (30 by 30).
- Strengthen the role of National Parks and ensure they act as exemplars of biodiversity protection and recovery whilst continuing to support local communities.
- Fulfil the potential of National Nature Reserves for nature recovery.
- Expand and enhance Nature Networks and ecological connectivity.
- Champion new planning and development measures for protecting and enhancing biodiversity.
- Enhance biodiversity in Scotland’s green and blue spaces.
Objective 3: Embed nature-friendly farming, fishing and forestry:
- Ensure increased uptake of high diversity, nature-rich, high-soil carbon, low-intensity farming methods while sustaining high-quality food production.
- Introduce an agricultural support framework which delivers for nature restoration and biodiversity alongside climate and food production outcomes.
- Ensure that forests and woodlands deliver increased biodiversity and habitat connectivity alongside timber and carbon outcomes.
- Implement Scotland’s vision for sustainable aquaculture to minimise negative impacts on biodiversity.
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Objective 4: Protect and support the recovery of vulnerable and important species and habitats:
- Revise the Scottish Biodiversity List of species and habitats that Ministers consider to be of principal importance for biodiversity conservation in Scotland.
- Develop effective species recovery, reintroduction and reinforcement programmes.
- Manage existing and emerging pressures to improve the conservation status of seabirds, marine mammals, elasmobranchs and wild salmon.
Objective 5: Invest in nature:
- Promote our natural capital market framework.
- Publish a Biodiversity Investment Plan for Scotland by the end of 2024.
- Public funding streams that contribute to nature restoration will be designed in a way that they can be matched or blended with private finance or investment.
- Provide direction on, and investment in, green skills and local economic opportunities supporting nature-based education, nature restoration skills and volunteering.
Objective 6: Take action on the indirect drivers of biodiversity loss:
Engage and strengthen the connection between people and communities and nature.