The latest assessed condition of gannets within this SPA found their status to be ‘favourable maintained’ (in 2023), which means that conservation objectives for gannets within this SPA were being met at the previous assessment, and are still being met. 2 Conservation and management advice published by Nature Scot in December 2024 for the North Rona and Sula Sgeir SPA identifies the hunting of gannets as an activity “considered capable of affecting the protected features” of the site and identified that there is existing management in place to manage pressures associated with the guga hunt, stating the “annual guga hunt at Sula Sgeir is subject to limits under license (currently a 2000 chick limit, unless exceptional...