COUNCILLOR Donald Crichton, chairman of Comhairle nan Eilean Siar’s sustainable development committee, has written to Roseanna Cunningham, Cabinet Secretary for the environment, climate change and land reform, to express concern about goose management in the Outer Hebrides.
The issue was discussed at a recent comhairle’s crofting joint consultative committee meeting, which is comprised of representative organisations including the comhairle, Community Land Scotland and the Scottish Crofting Federation.
In the letter, Mr Crichton states: ‘The committee was hugely concerned by the apparent retreat by the Scottish Government from funding goose management schemes such as the Adaptive Management of Greylag Geese.