Current status: Answered by Jim Fairlie on 26 March 2025
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S6W-05017 by Mairi McAllan on 6 January 2022, what plans it has to update the list of game species, including removing species that have been red-listed.
NatureScot are currently reviewing the bird species on Schedule 2 of the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981 (the list of game species) and will report to Scottish Ministers in due course.
Scottish Ministers will consider the findings of the review and decide whether to update the Schedule as necessary.