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Hunting with a pack of dogs is illegal in Scotland. Picture: Getty Images

Opinion Why the Scottish Parliament has passed a new Hunting with Dogs Bill

Riders and hounds as they take part in the Kennels Lanarkshire and Renfrewshire meet in Houston, Scotland. Environment Minister Mairi McAllan has said loopholes around fox hunting will be closed as the Hunting with Dogs Bill legislation goes through its final stage in 2023.

Environment Minister vows to close fox hunting loopholes with new law

Columnists A tree is not just for Christmas - Stuart Goodall

Environment Expansion plans for Scotland’s protected marine areas under SNP-Greens deal

People Kemnay Academy's film showcased at national gallery

Environment Plans to tighten up laws around grouse shooting

Business Eco-friendly West Coast tie-up taking timber transit off roads and onto sea

Environment Take a bough: How timber forests can help win climate and nature crises battle

Environment Funding for extra rangers at North east nature hot spots this summer

Business Deeside landholdings gain prestigious wildlife conservation accreditation

Home Farming: Land Reform Bill planned for next year

Home Woodland planting weathers the storm

Environment Felled: How storms have hit Scotland's tree-planting aims

Home Westminster and Holyrood split over gene editing policy

Columnists Water shortage fears are yet another warning about climate change

Environment Water emergency: Scottish Government outlines support to combat shortages

Environment Splash: Fife nudist beach among two new bathing waters in Scotland

Politics Ministers 'focused on future-proofing' Grangemouth amid fears over jobs

Home Woodland carbon code tightened in scramble for offset land

Environment In hot water: Health fears as Scotland’s lochs warm due to climate change

Home Grants aid native woodlands

Home Natural capital is the new wild west of financial investment

Home Register of interest in land control becomes law today

Columnists Question of who owns Scotland will not be settled by new register

Environment Campaign to tackle Scotland's 11,000 hectares of abandoned land

Environment Why young eagles are moving from the isles to Scotland's southern region

Environment Greens unhappy at new Scottish fox hunting Bill to

Home Crofters’ goose budget is cooked

Politics Area of sea larger than Edinburgh and Glasgow combined given special protection

Columnists More than just the dogs in the street know Johnson must go – Scotsman comment

Environment Deep secrets: Rockall Trench reveals new species living 2km below the sea

Home Expansion of commercial forestry means you can’t see the farmers for the trees

Home Green light for more small-scale woodlands

Home Striking the right balance with nitrogen use in farming - Brian Henderson

Environment 8 million trees damaged by Storm Arwen

Home See no weevil, hear no weevil

National Footballl club 'devastated' after Storm Arwen tears through stadium

Home Call for funding over new rules on slurry pollution

Environment Scotland to restore rare and unique Celtic rainforest

National COP26 not doing enough for global south, Scotland's environment minister warns

Home Scotland leading the way with ambitious woodland creation targets

People Community given £500,000 funding for mainland Britain's 'most remote pub'

Columnists SNP and Tories should unite in fight against climate change – Comment

Home £2m fund to fight eelworm threat

Columnists How a successful Scottish forestry sector is able to see the wood for the trees ...

Home Scottish Forestry acts to save peat

Transport Balearic Islands moved to Scotland's amber list

Environment Marine park and ‘wet farming’ test among schemes receiving share of £50m funding

Business Scotland’s timber transport infrastructure to benefit from £7 million of funding

Politics Three MSPs join Scottish Government ministerial ranks for first time

The Scotsman Top Stories

Crime Sturgeon urged to step in to stop transfer of another transgender prisoner

What's On Scottish culture cuts rethink demand to head off closures, job losses and cuts

Columnists Euan McColm : Pitifully weak Rishi Sunak deserves the defeat that is coming