Motion · S5M-22151 · 25 Jun 2020
The River Dee Trust
The motion
That the Parliament congratulates the River Dee Trust on its efforts over the last six years, with the support of the Dee District Salmon Fishery Board, to reach the milestone of planting 200,000 native trees on the river banks; notes that the purpose of this is to create shade to cool the river against the growing threat to its iconic wild salmon from rising water temperatures linked to climate change; acknowledges the wider ecosystem benefits of such projects in enhancing biodiversity through the creation of wildlife corridors to safeguard a range of threatened species; commends the Trust on its ambitious target to expand this project to plant a million native trees; understands however that this is being hampered by the design of existing funding mechanisms, and asks the Scottish Government to review these to facilitate the successful completion of crucial restoration project such as this and other such schemes across Scotland.
Supporters (21)
- Kenneth Gibson No Party Affiliation 25 Jun 2020
- Emma Harper 25 Jun 2020
- Bill Kidd 25 Jun 2020
- Richard Lyle 25 Jun 2020
- Mark McDonald 25 Jun 2020
- Gil Paterson 25 Jun 2020
- Stewart Stevenson 25 Jun 2020
- David Torrance Scottish National Party 25 Jun 2020
- Sandra White 25 Jun 2020
- Willie Coffey 26 Jun 2020
- Joan McAlpine 26 Jun 2020
- Fulton MacGregor Scottish National Party 27 Jun 2020
- Neil Findlay 7 Jul 2020
- Gillian Martin Scottish National Party 22 Jul 2020
- Alexander Burnett Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party 12 Aug 2020
- Mike Rumbles 12 Aug 2020
- Claudia Beamish 17 Aug 2020
- Ruth Maguire 20 Aug 2020
- Michelle Ballantyne 26 Aug 2020
- Alison Johnstone 4 Oct 2020
- Mark Ruskell Scottish Green Party 9 Oct 2020
Source: the Scottish Parliament motions and amendments record.