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FLS & the Loch Lomond and Trossachs National Park Authority are failing to fulfil their obligations to maintain paths on Ben Ledi and other hills funded by the National Lottery. As a result those paths are falling to bits & the investment wasted parkswatchscotland.co.uk/2025/05/30/for…

The National Forest Estate, owned by us, should be exemplifying good practice in relation to the management of access rights and core paths but under Forestry and Land Scotland is doing the opposite with the tacit consent of the National Park Authority parkswatchscotland.co.uk/2025/06/02/for…

After their weak objection to the Flamingo Land Planning application, Loch Lomond & Trossachs National Park Authority board members will be told tomorrow by senior staff who backed this development from the start to throw in the towel. What National Park? parkswatchscotland.co.uk/2025/06/06/fla…

The story of how the Loch Lomond and Trossachs National Park Authority and Scottish Government are aiding and abetting the Flamingo Land development at Balloch gets worse and worse parkswatchscotland.co.uk/2025/06/10/pav…

It says something about Highlands and Islands Enterprise that not only does it channel endless public funds to support its business subsidiary at Cairngorm Mountain but, as Graham Garfoot explains, allows it to commit daylight robbery too parkswatchscotland.co.uk/2025/06/18/hie…

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Is Israel using Iraq War to justify ‘preemptive’ Iran attacks? Swinney’s 2050 vision & bus company heads south. Plus Patrick Joyce hangs up his headphones after 9 years of weekly podcasts. He explains, I have a wee greet & young’ Fraser takes over. Listen at lesleyriddoch.com/podcast

The Loch Lomond and Trossachs National Park's spending and management priorities for outdoor recreation are completely wrong, focussing on it's own interests rather than the visitor infrastructure the public needs parkswatchscotland.co.uk/2025/06/23/the…

It doesn't appear that anyone in government knows how many sporting estates, like Gkencalvie, burn the land to increase deer numbers or have thought through how they will implement the Scottish Government's commitment to end this damaging practise parkswatchscotland.co.uk/2025/06/25/mui…

Time to stop the sales of what should be public land in Loch Lomond & Trossachs National Park, SE to Flamingo Land, FLS to private forestry interests and RSFS at Cashel - this post argues there is an alternative at Cashel, transfer the land for free to NTS parkswatchscotland.co.uk/2025/06/27/the…

The power of Scottish Ministers to call-in planning applications should provide a safeguard against failures to protect the public interest but in the case of Flamingo Land is part of the problem, undemocratic, unaccountable & a misuse of power parkswatchscotland.co.uk/2025/06/29/iva…

The management of the Scottish Fire - Rescue Service who have no systems in place to monitor muirburn & appear completely unconcerned about its impacts should now explain if it reduces fire risks as claimed why have the fires on Dava Moor been so big? parkswatchscotland.co.uk/2025/07/01/kin…

Allowing Flamingo Land to write the legal agreement which is supposed to protect the public interest at Balloch represents complete capitulation to development interests & is like letting private suppliers of goods and services write their own contracts. parkswatchscotland.co.uk/2025/07/08/fla…

The recent decision of the Shares Rural Network programme to reduce the number of phone masts in total not spots has been driven by financial interests rather than any concern by government about Scotland's landscape parkswatchscotland.co.uk/2025/07/10/una…

The Lomond and Trossachs National Park's approach to both deer control and control of non-native species is fallow and shallow parkswatchscotland.co.uk/2025/07/15/fal…

When are the Scottish Government & our National Parks going to look at what land speculators - aka investors - are actually doing on the ground as a result of their obsession with tree planting targets and courtesy of the Scottish Forestry grants system? parkswatchscotland.co.uk/2025/07/18/abr…

When Oxygen Conservation bought Glen Lednock with a massive loan from Triodos bank they failed to explain they would need to build a wimdfarm to pay it back. Felicity Martin explains why the proposed planning application is so wrong parkswatchscotland.co.uk/2025/07/21/gle…

Stobo Hope is a test case for much that is wrong with Scottish Forestry and forestry in Scotland. This post critiques the claims being made on the developers new website, claims that are being used across Scotland to justify the unjustifiable parkswatchscotland.co.uk/2025/07/23/sto…

How public land and resources are still being abused to support Flamingo Land's proposed development at Balloch. What will it take for Kate Forbes and Mairi Gougeon to intervene parkswatchscotland.co.uk/2025/07/24/the…

Sporting landowners will remain happy with the Cairngorms National Park so long as it supports projects which make no ecological sense, do little or nothing to further conservation and does nothing to challenge the way they mis-use the land parkswatchscotland.co.uk/2025/07/25/the…