Getting a Grip on the Slippery Slope
Getting a grip on the slippery slope: biodiversity decline Aberdeenshire
A blog post authored by Eleanor, written Monday 21st March 2022
The North East of Scotland might, at first glance, appear to have an abundance of green space. Travel for more than twenty minutes out of Aberdeen city in any direction, take a back road and you will find yourself among green fields, lichen-covered stone walls and scattered woodlands.
But not all is as idyllic as it seems.
Despite its apparent abundance of wildlife, the North East has one of the highest rates of local species decline in the country. The State of Nature Scotland report for 2019 revealed that one in ten of the species in Scotland are threatened with extinction, with 265 plant species among them. This decline has been alarmingly rapid, driven by increased agricultural intensity, climate change, human interference in water drainage and urbanization.
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