Thank you for your support!
The Scottish Government’s Cabinet Secretary for Rural Affairs has announced that, following the consultation carried out by NatureScot to consider views on the creation of a third National Park in Galloway and Ayrshire, the government will not proceed with plans for a Galloway National Park.
This is a welcome outcome and we would like to thank everyone who supported the campaign.
You can read NatureScot’s advice to the Scottish Ministers, along with their full report and an additional advice note on natural heritage matters by clicking on the document names.
YES to Galloway,
NO to a Park
Galloway has been chosen as the preferred location for Scotland’s next National Park, but it’s not too late to stop it.
We need investment urgently, but we don’t need a wasteful, bureaucratic National Park to deliver what we need. Affordable housing, better roads, better schools and health care and good jobs should be our priorities, not more civil servants.
Supporters of a National Park say it will encourage tourism, but we can’t cope with what we have, so our infrastructure needs improvement first.
And we already have tourist attractions and a Scottish Government agency to promote them.
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National Park Campaigners Infuriated By Scottish Government Snub For Parliament Meeting
April 7, 2025
Campaigners against a new national park in Galloway have reacted with fury after the Cabinet Secretary for Rural Affairs, Mairi Gougeon, snubbed a meeting in the Scottish Parliament to discuss the need for a review of the two existing parks.