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"There seems to be far too little money put into monitoring the health of the sea, even though so many people’s jobs and communities depend on it" theferret.scot/scandal-sea-lo…

Lochs are classified as having a “good” environmental status based on samples from other lochs many miles away – and as much as a decade old – prompting concerns that environmental regulation isn’t “fit for purpose” f.mtr.cool/ogkgpouaud

Campaigners accuse Sepa of “flying blind”, and describe the monitoring regime as “not fit for purpose”. More resources need to be devoted to ensuring the health of Scotland’s seas and encouraging nature recovery, they say theferret.scot/scandal-sea-lo…

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Campaigners accuse Sepa of “flying blind”, and describe the monitoring regime as “not fit for purpose”. More resources need to be devoted to ensuring the health of Scotland’s seas and encouraging nature recovery, they say. Our latest: theferret.scot/scandal-sea-lo…

In one case, a loch known to be polluted by the salmon farming industry has been rated as good based on ten-year-old samples from another loch 12 miles away.

🔴NEW: The monitoring of marine pollution by the Scottish Government’s green watchdog has been dubbed a “scandal” following the discovery that it rates 400 of Scotland’s coastal waters as being environmentally fine based on wildlife samples from just 54 of them.

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Orbán is out, but the think tanks, funding and relationships built under his government won’t just disappear overnight. So we’re making that investigation free to read theferret.scot/orban-conserva…

That investigation looked at Mathias Corvinus Collegium (MCC), funded with £1.3bn of Hungarian state money, and its links to networks across Europe, including figures connected to Scotland.

Last year, The Ferret followed a story from Scotland to Hungary, tracing how a think tank backed by Viktor Orbán was feeding into culture war debates here.

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Alastair Brian (The Ferret) Alastair leads our fact-checking arm, The Ferret Fact Service, and writes about disinformation and conspiracy theories. He also delivers training on media literacy and spotting disinformation.

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