Open petitions with the Environment, Climate Change and Land Reform Committee
The Committee agreed to keep four petitions open to be carried into Session 6 and included reference to those in its Session 5 legacy report. These petitions are listed below.
Closed Petitions
Petitions which were considered by the Committee, but which are now closed can be found at the following link: Closed Petitions considered by the ECCLR Committee
Petition by Patrick Krause, on behalf of the Scottish Crofting Federation, calling on the Scottish Parliament to urge the Scottish Government to address the problems created by increasing populations of wild geese in the crofting areas as a matter of priority; reassess its decision to stop funding exiting goose management programmes; and assign additional resources to Crop Protection and Adaptive Management programmes to ensure this threat to the future of crofting is averted.
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Petition lodged by Alex Hogg on behalf of Scottish Gamekeepers Association calling on the Scottish Parliament to urge the Scottish Government to introduce independent monitoring of satellite tags fitted to raptor species, to assist the police and courts in potential wildlife crime cases and to provide data transparency.
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Petition lodged by Gill Docherty on behalf of Scotland Against Greyhound Exploitation calling on the Scottish Parliament to urge the Scottish Government to put an end to greyhound racing in Scotland.
Petition lodged by Steve Micklewright calling on the Scottish Parliament to urge the Scottish Government to initiate a programme to translocate protected beavers to suitable habitat outside existing beaver range, to minimise the need to kill animals adversley impacting arable farmland.