SCA Environmental Audits

Scottish rivers and lochs are the heartbeat of the nation's natural resources and are vital to our health and economic wellbeing. Their protection suffers from being hidden away from casual view, almost complete lack of planining permission requirements and lack of funding for monitoring bodies such as SEPA.

Paddlers obviously have a strong interest in the protection of our freshwater assets and their mode of travel puts them in a unique position to make a significant contribution to improving the environment.

The first Audit was carried out on the River Garry in Inverness-shire and a second is underway. The report uses industry standard indicators and photographic evidence.

List of Audits

The report has been put onto this web site to enable comment from as wide audience as possible at no cost and to encourage future audits. Paper copies are available from the Access Officer at the SCA. Use the same contact to volunteer to audit a river.

The layout of Audit area of the web site is as follows;

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Related Links
This report issued on 20th April from the World Wildlife Fund highlighted the lack of resources for monitoring of water quality in Scottish freshwater.

This is the first attempt to post a large report to the SCA website. Any comments on the technical website aspects of this report would be much appreciated and should be sent to Paul Cromey