In your 2013 game against Aroni and Atata, when you played 15 for black, Bishop c5, all the ensuing combinations and tactics, how much of that were you seeing in advance? So that's literally this position, right? And I played Bishop c5. So I'll tell you, I spent 25 minutes in this position because I couldn't remember a thing. I vaguely remembered that, sorry, I'll move the pieces right here, that if he goes h3 then this is the draw. And that's what he should do, right? And that's a draw. And Bishop e4 then? That is some draw. I think you take and Bishop b8 and then this knight is loose. And the details are a thing. But when you played f4, I thought this move I don't remember at all. And I was searching, racking my brain to find out why and I could not figure it out. Then suddenly I had this almost something flashed in my head. And this knight was on this square on d3. In your head? In my head. I suddenly, some variation flashed where I had a knight on d3. I couldn't for the life of me connect it, but I started to look, is there something, there are obvious moves anyway, I can do this, trying to get to d3. I can play e5, all based on the same idea as in the game. But none of them seem to work. This one is too slow, he takes and these things. This one, I mean he'll allow me to take and recapture it. So what's the deal? Eventually by elimination, I realized it must be bishop c5, there's nothing else. But once I started to look at bishop c5, it started to look good to me. And then it closes very fast. It's like if I'm finding out 80% of the map, then the rest fills in very fast. It gets accelerated. And you knew knight dE5 was coming at that point. That was a thing. So I'll tell you, I played bishop c5 because if I, if he takes, I take, he captures here, then my dream, my vision, whatever is check and knight captures d3. And then that knight which pops into d3 works. So that's all I had to reconstruct, but it is beautiful that with little, I was able to reconstruct it. Now I went here, Aronian was a bit shocked because he had not given it a lot of attention. But it was very courageous on him, his part to even get here. Because I had prepared this for a match against Gelfand and the guy lets me and basically says, show me what you got. Show me what you and your team spent a month on. That's, it's brave, but it's also kind of irresponsible. I mean, unless you've checked it yourself very thoroughly. So he seems to be slightly flippant about it. Anyway, after bishop e2, the rest played itself. For me, bishop c5 took 25 minutes. I don't remember knight d5 might have taken me five minutes, but more because I was double checking and I haven't done anything. But this came effortlessly because already we are talking of, this knight has to support this one. The queen and bishop are going to flood into d4. Knight f2 check is going to win, all these little dots. So while this is maybe the most spectacular move, it's the less difficult move to find, especially once you have done this. So now if you ask me, before I saw bishop c5, did I see knight d5? I did not even see bishop e2. I was more focused on the main thing. I didn't see bishop e2. So once he played bishop e2, the obvious, everything else failed itself and I flooded in. And of course, the big advantage was by now, Rotley v. Rubinstein was coming into my head. So I knew that, I knew what happens. Well, we'll get that structure a bit later, but I knew what happens when you get this bishop, this bishop all pointing in this direction. Smothered mate, h3 becomes impossible. Roughly speaking, this was Rotley v. Rubinstein with the knight here and it's a classic game in chess history. And so I knew the patterns and all the details, check out. So once I played knight d5, the rest came pretty fast. There was only one more thing I had to find. King h1, knight takes g4. Again, every move loses except what he did. And then f5 is a brilliant move. f5 is fantastic because for a dangerously long time, and later on you shiver when you shudder when you realize what you could have done, for quite some time I considered this move. Yeah, but then queen h7 and it's the draw, right? Or maybe you're even worse? Maybe even I'm worse. But the beauty is it was, this move was slightly easier to find because seven years ago, Kramnik had allowed queen h7 against Fritz, mate. And Kramnik and pretty much everyone said, there is no way I would have allowed queen h7 if the knight had been on f6. Because to a human, immediately it signals danger all over the place. But in knight on f8, you almost forget it's there. Whereas for a computer, it sees that both moves allow queen h7. So at some point I realized, oh my god, queen h7. Well, that would spoil a very nice position. Then by elimination, again, I could play f5. And once again, all the dots come. And the queen will come to h4 in one way or another. It will be over. And then you just knew you're completely winning. And there's one more detail if you like, which is that here I have to play this. But it wins. It's the only move which doesn't lose. But it also wins.


Story of my life these past couple of weeks. I like it It's actually been a lot of fun. It's it's a good run to have like I've been saying so happy with it We got six of those rolls on my trailer taking them down once again, too You guessed it What did North Dakota wish the Sun was shining still gonna be a good day? Let's go get some Timmy's if it'll be a good day or not if you can get a good cup of coffee It doesn't have to be Timmy's Hey McDonald's they have really good coffee, too. I hesitate saying that But it's true. I Have been brought into the fold Starbucks, but only coffee came none of the frappe dappuccino nonsense, okay? You go into Starbucks.  Okay, cuz they got this weird funny language. Do you mean venting? No, I mean large big The big one give me the big one What would you like in it? coffee Just coffee, can you put some cream in there two of them? Large coffee or extra-large at Starbucks gets to cream. It's a little bit of a stronger coffee than Timmy's No sugar Do not do not dare ruin my coffee with sugar. I'll ruin the whole day Frappe dappuccino, give me a coffee.  And you're like you got When I first went to Starbucks, right? I Went in there. I was like squinting at the menu Do you guys sell coffee? Just coffee Jokes aside, it is pretty good coffee. Let's say You don't even need an espresso shot in that coffee whereas Tim's you need an espresso shot to give it that extra Starbucks has the built right in Once you get the language barrier like once you get over the language barrier and you get your large coffee Who else has good coffee in the US Dunkin Donuts? I don't mind their coffee It's on the east coast there Caribou coffee out in the northern Midwest here good coffee 200 meters turn left on main street highway 13 Tim Horton's rule of all We feel in our patriotic duty Even though Tim Horton is a Brazilian company owned by Brazilians It was once a Canadian company and we must stay loyal if you own a Tim Horton's in Canada They they they call it owning the bank. It's like it's like going you're not going to work when you own a chimneys You're going to the bank you make good money, but it also costs a lot of money to get into the franchise I heard it's like a million dollars just to buy in and then you have to you know get a location land building permits all the materials With pricey, but once that's paid off whoo, you're laughing all The way to the bank the real bank, so we're just leaving Carmen Manitoba here right now Let's get out there That was fitting a lot of farmers around here at Tova That's in central Canada, but if you ask any Canadians, especially those of us who live out in this region We are Western Canada Today we went to Timmy's in Winkler at the corner of Main Street and The 14 here Tim's there Easier to get into easier to get close to with a truck than in Carmen Carmen you can park on the road But then I'm facing the wrong direction is a little bit tight to turn around and go back the other way whereas here They actually have some parking on the side of the street It's just a little easier for me to get in there with a truck Tim Hortons as much as we love them Never think of the truckers when they build a location never It's kind of funny because you know truckers are one of their biggest customers But I know is a truck the truckers love coffee Generally you think that you know you would make a little bit of an exception to make some truck park now never Not even in some of I guess that's not true some are built in a location that just happens to have an area where we can park That's not like they planned it out usually Usually It feels like this ride just gets shorter and shorter every day. We're almost there. I Thought we just got started. That's all the time to unload. I Got four kilometers to go Three miles less than three miles That's crazy. I Guess that's good, right the days are going by fast The faster the days go by the faster payday arrives. That was my rhyme. Did you like it? Made it up just now. I could be a rapper No, I shouldn't be no That'd be a terrible idea The faster the days go by the faster payday arrives I'll just one liner Josh right here. That's all I got. I got nothing else Thanks Karen. I didn't ask So he's talking out of turn You'll speak when spoken to She never listens to that. She's her own independent woman She'll talk what she wants to talk. I guess he doesn't have a CV on As I was pulling out he tried to go around me I was gonna prevent I was gonna make it I didn't have to change lanes. It's coming up pretty fast here. That's why He might be mad at me now I know in Europe it's illegal to pass on the right hand side. It's not illegal here in North America It's frowned upon but since I'm turning left up ahead here. I should be in the left lane In that case, it's perfectly fine to go by on the right Oh It's quite often in my comment section. Oh, he passed on the right hand side. That's illegal not here No, but like I said, it's frowned upon you shouldn't be passing trucks on the right hand side for no reason But if he if he's turning left, I mean, what am I gonna do turn left from the right lane? I Think that's frowned upon even more Hey, right Just put on my Scottish hat. I have it in the truck here. I don't know why I haven't a warning yet It's worth for that one picture What do I do I go around the back? No, I'm gonna back in right there Yeah, I got your stuff. I don't know if I'm doing another one tomorrow. I think so just like yesterday. I haven't gotten my Reload yet, but I'm assuming it'll probably be in my computer here Shortly probably back up, but when I do I make it so no one can hear I can't wait to get train horns I want train horns. They're in my shop. I just haven't had the time to put them on the truck yet It's for the kids, of course for the kids if you're a kid and you give me the arm pump I will blow your mind Almost in position here almost I know you can't really see everything. I'm only one man. I can't have I don't have a camera All over the place Can only do one thing at a time. Oh, yes Wonderful voodoo pop. Okay. I'm gonna let everybody she likes to sing to me. I Had fun too. It was a good ride. Don't worry. We're going back. We're gonna do some more trucking on duty, excuse me on duty Unloading cargo and then I'm gonna go into my messages And I'm gonna compose a message. Oh, it feels so official. I will compose a message I'll pick one of these ones. That's already like a template arrived at Destination send are you sure you want to send? Yeah, that's why I asked you to send it. There we go so now that got sent into the load gods and Now they know that I've arrived at my destination and once I'm done here I'll send them another message that says empty at destination So now they know to get the ball rolling on my reload. I'm pretty sure I'm just going back to Carmen like I said But that means that hey, I'm ready for my load info Could you send it through please so that I know what I'm doing? Thank you very much Communication is key to any relationship Especially between a driver and the load gods you must have good communication. Otherwise things get confused Freak gets delivered to the wrong place You don't want that All right, you guys ready? I'm ready. Oh, I'm not ready. I need my first all I need to do up my belt There you go, it's always comfier when I'm driving one You get it one second here one second. Yes All right Gotta put this on so people can see me Otherwise they can't see me. I'm like a ghost Where'd he go? He's not wearing his vest. What happened here? Is this all twisted up? What in turnation? You kidding me? There you go. See I'm a problem solver Oh Yes, oh, it's getting a little snug already, isn't it? Everything. Oh, I just wanted to plug in my headset while we're here This is the one. I'll make sure that stays charged. Okay. You stay there you charge I'm gonna put on my working hat I'm gonna have to change your battery first Like I said earlier as far as I know we're going back for another one find out soon. Yeah, it was a good good run Actually went really quick today Almost missed my turn because I didn't realize I was this far already All right, buddy here I come. I brought my walking shoes along this time Be a little easier on my feet I'm gonna do the same walk I did last time in Fargo from the Flying Jay straight West down 32nd Avenue South Check the weather first real quick here. Make sure it's not gonna rain Looks like it might Looks like the rain passed already. Okay. Good already. Everything today is just going so quick 5.4 kilometers 5.45 kilometers just under five and a half We went over and it felt like we just started those shoes The shoes make a big difference. I had a couple of you leaving comments Telling me shoes shoes will help better shoes My wife was on the same page as you and believe why you guys are all right my feet feel great Like fantastic, it's so awesome. Oh, I just touched the lens. Oh, man So I'm gonna go inside have a shower now and then we'll head up to Kermin Oh, I feel good. I could have kept going honestly. I was thinking about it I was thinking we'll just turn around and go doing it again but I only have a certain amount of time tonight and We got to get back to Carmen Got another load tomorrow All right, guys Let's get out of here before we run out of hours Got about two and a half hours to the Canadian border We have three and a half hours left on our US hours of service Probably would five and a half left on our Canadian hours of service once we cross the border Got a watch out for your alignment here in the parking lot potholes, they'll eat you whole I Mean you got to hold on to your children those potholes.  Let us go to Canada. I made a Canadian idea I'm not you it's gonna be a good time So I've got my next load sent to me already is another Wapton. Did you guess right? I thought maybe I get a Buxton, but because we have some going to Waptons. I'm going to Buxton And I had two Buxton's last week three Waptons So far this week it seems just a few drivers are hogging all the Buxton's But I'm pretty sure But that'll be all right because if I'm doing Wapton at the beginning of the week, I bet you I'm gonna be doing Buxton The end of the week, which would be a great Friday Buxton is a Two-hour shorter round trip. So if I get a Buxton on a Friday means I get home at a really good time for the weekend Unlike last weekend I had a Wapton on a Friday, which means I only got home at like 10 30 at night Not that I'm complaining, but we'll see maybe this week will work out He's sort of got a disperse them evenly amongst the drivers, right? At least I hope they're being dispersed evenly.  You've also got to keep your drivers happy And you got to stare at a screen and sit in a chair with no scenery all day But we're very thankful for them. I Get along very well with mine. They're great They've always treated me very well And they're good. They're good like friends to talk to you know, I've heard some horror stories on the internet about dispatchers Believe me. I've heard them all For me have never experienced any bad dispatchers For 11 years now 11 years straight. I've always had great people working in the office Probably why I've been here so long. Why would I leave right? The only reason I left for three months was Because the whole pandemic threw everything upside down and I needed to be home for a while and there's some miscommunications and Didn't know what was going on But eventually we got it figured out and found a position that that worked for me for a year or two until everything calmed down And then I bought old blue and here we are But I've never I don't have anything bad to say about anyone in the office. They They're great people It would be hard working every day with people you don't like. I'm glad I've never had to experience that my US hours of service We're passing by Pembina, North Dakota right here One mile south of the Canadian border headed north. I figure we should have enough time hour and hour and one minute. Yeah Get us there Settlement in North Dakota It's actually an older settlement than Stein back where I'm from by almost a hundred years once again in all blue The end of the day But I got my walk in today and it felt so good 5.4 kilometers. That's probably 3.2 miles more than my goal and I didn't even realize I went over by that far That's how good I felt so my feet are completely healed up But most of all the shoes The shoes made such a difference and these are pretty old like the bottom of the shoes are kind of worn out already I've had these shoes. Oh, I can't remember but they got proper support. I remember when I bought them They actually tested my foot and where I Place a lot of my weight and they found out that my feet I put too much weight on the inside of my feet to my feet like we'll go like this a little bit So they put extra support on the inside so that my foot would be level and be properly supported So if I ever go and get new walking shoes or gym shoes again, I'm gonna I forget where I got those. They're great Made all the difference in the world You guys were 100% right in the comments section. I said, oh, I'm just gonna use whatever shoes I have I'll just wear my steel toes. It doesn't matter It matters Okay, you got me. You got me. It matters details So I'm still walking in my jeans because I'm a truck driver and I wear jeans. I Don't think that matters. Does it really matter what pants I wear on my walk. I Mean if it really does I'll take you seriously and I'll consider it because you were right last time But as long as I got proper shoes, right? I'm tired. 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The next item of business is a debate on motion 1, 2, 5, 3, 5, in the name of Jim Fairlie, on wildlife management and Muirburn Scotland Bill at stage 3. As members will be aware, the Presiding Officer is required understanding orders to decide whether or not, in her view, any provision of a bill relates to a protected subject matter. That is whether it modifies the electoral system and franchise for Scottish parliamentary elections. In the case of this bill, in the Presiding Officer's view, no provision of the wildlife management and Muirburn Scotland Bill relates to a protected subject matter. Therefore, the bill does not require a supermajority to be passed at stage 3. Before we move to the debate, I also call on Shona Robison, Deputy First Minister, to signify crown consent to the bill. For the purposes of rule 9.11 of the standing orders, I advise the Parliament that His Majesty, having been informed of the purport of the wildlife management and Muirburn Scotland Bill, has consented to place his prerogative and interests insofar as they are affected by the bill at the disposal of the Parliament for the purposes of the bill. We will now move on to the debate. I would invite those members who would wish to speak in the debate to please press the request-to-speak buttons, and I call on Jim Fairlie to speak to and to move the motion up to seven minutes, please, minister. I am honoured to present my first bill to the Scottish Parliament as a minister and to open the stage 3 debate on the wildlife management and Muirburn Scotland Bill. As I said in my stage 1 contribution, my boy had ambition to get a glimpse of my favourite bird, but bird of prey, the Peregrine Falcon. Never for a moment believing that I would one day be standing in this chamber, putting legislation through our Parliament, that would, I hope, finally riddus of the scourge that has seen too many of these magnificent birds and many others disappear as a result of illegal persecution. Perpetrated by a tiny minority who just do not accept that it is simply not going to be tolerated by Scottish society or by the industry that it shames any longer. With over 10,000 responses to our two public consultations from stakeholders and public alike, this debate has generated great interest and has clearly shown support from all sides for what this bill seeks to achieve. The history of this bill's conclusion is long and there are many who should be thanked from my friend and predecessor, Roseanna Cunningham, to Mary Gougeon, to Mary McCallan and to my immediate predecessor, Gillian Martin, who not only started the stage 2 process but has and is my wing woman throughout the stage 3 proceedings and again today. Thank the minister for taking his intervention. Whilst I join him in congratulating the efforts and the work that his predecessors have made, would he not also agree with me that he's led to some problems with continuity and particularly with parts of the bill like snaring and glue traps bringing some uncertainty as to what the Government's position was right up to the very last minute? To the rule, I'd like to thank, put on record, my thanks to the rule affairs committee for their careful consideration of the bill and thank you for all their hard work. But I would also like to say that each of the people I just spoke about have played a significant role and I put on record my grateful thanks to all of them. There are those who disagreed with the principles of this bill, but had the grouse shooting community shut down raptor persecution, had stopped killing our most iconic birds of prey, we would not have had to legislate in that way, but sadly they didn't shut it down, so now it's up to us to make sure that they do, and it is for that reason that we have this bill before us today. However, this is not just about raptor persecution. When the Scottish Government commissioned the Verite review of grossmure management, they were asked for wider recommendations on how grossmures could be managed more sustainably. On behalf of the Scottish Government, I'd like to thank Professor Verite and the group for providing the recommendations, which are the foundation of this bill, covering a breadth of topics including mureburn and several other important matters. The bill introduces licensing schemes from mureburn and for the taking of red grouse. There are measures to better protect animals by regulating the use of traps and giving enhanced powers to the SSPCA officers, helping them to support police in their efforts to tackle wildlife crime.  We are banning not only the use of glue traps but also their possession and sale going further than any other country in the UK. The bill has caused concern for folk who work legally and responsibly in mureburn pursuits, and I completely understand that. However, I want to be clear that there should be no victory parade here, because this Government I want to reassure them recognises the economic contribution and, as importantly, their work in combating biodiversity loss and guarding against the risk of wildfires, and we value it immensely. As often it is not as keepers who are on the front line beside our fire and rescue services protecting local communities when fire breaks out. They are a highly skilled standing army of vital volunteers in our rural and remote areas and the very places that we are looking to protect, so I wish to thank them for their continued efforts. Throughout this bill process ministers and officials have worked hard to develop and improve its measures. Where concerns have been raised we have sought to address those with amendments from Government and members from across the chamber at stage 2 and stage 3. I am pleased to have seen the willingness from everyone to find real solutions to sometimes complex issues that had to be addressed. Although we may not have agreed on everything, I hope that members can see that we have tried to find that balance. That common ground that has helped us to achieve clarity and a workable bill made better by members listening to each other that the industry will embrace and ultimately benefit from. I believe that we will all benefit from this bill. I am fully committed to continuing to listening to the concerns raised around the details in the coming schemes and to working with people from all sides and for people to be fully involved in the work that NatureScot will now lead on to implement those schemes, not least of all to complete the development of the Grousemure and Mureburn codes that will accompany the bill. I welcome the minister's confirmation on Tuesday night that historic fences are not a basis for revoking a section 16AA licence. However, we would like some clarity on whether there will be a retrospective angle to that. In relation to 16AA licence coming into force, would that be a lawful basis for refusing to grant a licence in the first place? Would the minister address that? That should be addressed by NatureScot as we go through the process that we have already talked about. I made a climate and biodiversity crisis. Science and research has demonstrated to us all that some practices undertaken in the past are harmful, despite, as Edward Mountain rightly pointed out, that at the time we thought they were advantageous, like draining peatland and O for the gift of hindsight. Others are simply no longer going to be tolerated, but the aims of this bill are not mutually exclusive. It is possible to manage wildlife while ensuring the highest standards of animal welfare. People who live and work on their land do so every day. It is possible to undertake mureburn in a manner that does not damage fragile ecosystems and brings positive benefits for rural communities. It is possible to support activities that immensely contribute to a rural economy such as grouse shooting, while at the same time taking a zero-tolerance approach to raptor persecution and wildlife crime. We may have our differences of opinion in this chamber. One thing I know for sure is that there is an unwavering commitment to protect our wildlife, to support our rural businesses and to protect our iconic moorlands. That is why this bill is so important. If members vote to pass it today, we will be voting to end the stain and the shame of raptor persecution. For animal welfare to be at the forefront of responsible land management and to support those hardworking people in our rural communities, those highly responsible grouse moon managers that manage their land in an environmentally sustainable manner, which will give long-term security to them and their families. With that, I move that the Parliament agrees that the wildlife managing a mureburn Scotland bill will be passed. I am pleased to be able to speak to the wildlife management and mureburn bill at stage 3 on behalf of the Scottish Conservatives. I want to take the opportunity to thank all stakeholders who have provided evidence in what is a very complex and intricate piece of draft legislation. I also want to thank the extreme patience and efficiency of Marina Sinclair-Chin and Lucy Sharbot from the Scottish parliamentary bills team. Last, of course, not least, I would like to thank the various ministers for meeting with me. In total, there have been four ministers presiding over this bill, quite a churn. I noted that Gillian Martin joked on X with Jim Fairlie about how quickly she could send her bill folder off to her successor. Scrutinising this bill has been an eye-opening experience from my colleagues and I, the extent to which this SNP green government has ignored evidence and sidelined science has been frankly astonishing. Why should I have been surprised? After all, we have had a raft of bills and policies since the SNP have been in power that are completely off the mark, such as GRR, the DRS, Hunting with Dogs, HPMAs and the Hate Crime Bill, which, of course, comes into force on April Fool's Day. You could not make it up, could you? Members across the chamber will know that the catalyst for this legislation was the Scottish Government's independent review of the Grousemore management chaired by Professor Alan Warrity. Since its publication, ministers have been on the record saying that they are implementing the recommendations of the Warrity review. At best, this is a gross mischaracterisation. Professor Warrity's review in 2019 was very clear that the licensing of gross shooting, the flagship provision of this bill, should only be implemented if, within five years, the ecological favourability of Grousemores in relation to three key raptor species had not been improved. Would Rachel Hamilton not recognise that the variety review was brought in because of decades of raptor persecution and that the Parliament, the Government and the public had finally lost patience? I think that bringing forward a bill because people have lost patience is entirely the wrong way. Bringing in legislation should be about evidence-led, science-led. No, it wasn't Jim Fairlie. Jim Fairlie is trotting from the sideline. Raptor persecution, Presiding Officer, is at an historic low, and I will come to that, but let's be clear. Ministers plowed on with implementing this bill and, in effect, ignoring their flagship recommendation of an independent review commissioned by ministers costing £86,000. The disdain that this Government seems to have for evidence-led policymaking and independent arbitration is, frankly, shocking. Take another key section of the bill, the provision of enhanced powers for SSPCA to investigate wildlife crime. Again, ministers commissioned an independent task force to consider whether the SSPCA should be given enhanced powers. That task force concluded that the extension of such powers would not be appropriate without the institutional support of the police and Crown Office, and yet, despite crystal clear recommendation, which called for partnership working over enhanced powers, ministers rode rough shot yet again. Presiding Officer, what is the point of commissioning independent review after independent review if ministers are ignoring it? I think in reality, Presiding Officer, is that the SNP ministers don't care about this bill, not the people who are set to be impacted. They don't care about independent arbitration, they don't care about evidence-led policymaking, and they certainly don't care about the people and wildlife. This bill is likely to effect. It is a shameful reflection of the derision that the Government have for rural Scotland, and it is all those reasons that the bill itself has ended up being conceptually flawed. Ministers appear to have no understanding whatsoever of proportionality, something that should be a central component of every bill put before this Parliament, in effect going no further than is required to achieve the policy aim. They are appetite to punish landlords for anything and everything and sees no bounds, a fact that is crystallised in with other legislation that has been passed in this place. We know that the genesis of this licensing scheme is about one issue and one issue only, raptor persecution, the prevalence of which is thankfully now at historically low levels, as I said. Raptor persecution was a problem on Scotland's grassmalls in the past, but has thankfully been largely consigned to the history books with on-going issues limited to a tiny minority. To be clear, we condemn this minority and they should be punished with the full force. I have said already that I do not want sedentary chitchat. Please have the courtesy to listen to the member who has the floor and, in this instance, it is Ms Hamilton, please regime. I am surprised that Shona Robison, of course, with grass shooting on the horizon, would think and ought to be focused on tackling raptor persecution. Not so, not so, Presiding Officer. However, they continue to demonise and penalise grassmall operators at any cost. The bill is a classic example of a tail wagging— Excuse me, Ms Hamilton, please point to boarder, if you want to hear his last point of order. Point of order. I understand that people feel strongly about different debates, but in terms of that, I aspect in standing orders to do with respect for other colleagues. I have been sitting next to Ms Robison and she did not utter a word since she moved the motion at the beginning. I do think that this is creeping in too often and your guidance, Presiding Officer, would be gratefully received. I thank Ms Hyslop for her contribution. That is not a point of order, but the matter is on the record. I had already indicated to the front bench that they should not be engaging in sedentary conversations, if you like, while another member had the floor and notwithstanding my entreaty that was ignored. Ms Hamilton, please continue. This is just a classic example of the bill. The green tail is wagging the yellow dog and the antipathy of the Scottish Greens towards people that live in rural areas, landowners, landlords and virtually anyone else who has been remotely successful in their life knows no bounds. Country sports are like catnip for Scottish Greens and we should be in no doubt that the disproportionality inherent in this licensing scheme is their doing, with SNP ministers too weak to say no. Again, rural Scotland suffers the consequences.  Last week, he doubled down on the snaring ban and said that we do not support the licensing scheme because of the overwhelming evidence that the public simply will not accept SNERS anymore. That is not evidence, Mr Fairlie. It is a weak SNP Government led by ideology. Ministers have taken a wrecking ball to the toolkit for effective predicate control, which is likely to have dire consequences for nature, for biodiversity and for protection of livestock during lambing months. It is with regret that I did not submit an amendment to reflect the need for a humane cable restraint under licence to be used during the lambing season or indeed a derogation from the total ban to protect livestock and to protect those lambs. Those opposed to this may argue that if a farmer wants to reduce predation, he or she should consider lambing indoors. For many farmers, that simply isn't practical. They may not have the facilities or the flock as traditionally lambed outdoors. Ms Hamilton, you need to bring your bicycles please. Thank you. Overall, this bill is a product of disinterested and unevidence policymaking exacerbated by disproportionality in the flagship provision. The Scottish Conservatives will always stand up for Scotland and the rural Scotland in particular, and as such, we will not be supporting the bill at stage 3. Thank you, Ms Hamilton. I now call on Rhoda Grant on behalf of Scottish Labour up to five minutes. Thank you, Presiding Officer. I also thank the clerks and all those who have worked to the committee and all those who give evidence on the bill. I also thank the parliamentary staff, who stayed late on Tuesday night to allow us to get through the stage 3 amendments. This was an extremely difficult bill to scrutinise. We were handed a bill and told that major amendments would be added at stage 2. What we didn't realise at that time was that major amendments would also be dropped in at stage 3. That is not the way to make good legislation, and I fear that there will be consequences to the way that the Scottish Government has handled the issue. That is not a new issue. It had time to legislate. Indeed, my colleague Peter Peacock raised the regulation of Grouse Moores a way back in 2010, during the wildlife and natural environment Scotland act, when that was going through Parliament. That is not something that was raised recently. However, it is a shame that the behaviours have not changed sufficiently in the intervening years regarding raptor persecution. We are now licensing Grouse Moores because of that behaviour. I hope that Grouse Moores owners realise that they are also unnoticed. If illegal raptor persecution does not stop on Grouse Moores, I am sure that there will be further legislation. I am not a fan of Grouse Moores. I cannot understand the pleasure that someone gets from killing a living thing for sport. However, that bill is not about banning Grouse Moores. It is about putting them on notice. What was interesting from our evidence was that other species thrive on Grouse Moores—Curly, Merlin, Golden Plover, for example. There is something to be learned from the management of Grouse Moores and about how we provide habitats for those birds to encourage their numbers and protect them in the future. There is a huge amount of knowledge on land habitat management held in those moores. We need to be able to learn from that, regardless of our opinion of the purpose of Grouse Moores. I have concerns about the amount of legislation that is coming through the Parliament. The bill is no different. We have presided over a Government that does not believe that it will ever lose power. Their backbenchers do their master's bidding and I, for one, will have a rice mile when they cry foul in opposition and when the new Government uses the powers bequeathed by them for carrying out policies that are not to their liking. A wise Government legislates like it is their last day in office and, in the full knowledge that they will be required to keep future Governments in check. That is not about the balance of power. It is about legislating wisely and ensuring that there are checks and balances in place. There is, of course, a need on occasion for enabling legislation. Mureburn is a case in point. The science is not clear. Wildfires on degraded peat with a large fuel load release huge amounts of carbon, and we saw that in the devastation in Cannack last year. Does Mureburn have the potential to protect peat from wildfires? We must ask those questions because we need to manage the fuel loads to make sure that wildfires are kept in check. However, we do not know the science. We have to be honest about that. Therefore, the ability to adapt regulations is necessary. When scientific knowledge evolves, the regulations need to be evolving, too, but that needs scrutiny and the bill does not allow for that. I really hope that the bill will provide a step change on how grouse moors are managed. Raptors should no longer be persecuted and grouse moors should be playing their role in protecting nature and the environment. I very much hope that that comes from this bill. I am pleased to speak for Scottish Liberal Democrats at stage 3 of the Wildlife Management and Mureburn Scotland Bill. As others have done, I offer my thanks to organisations that provided briefings and gave evidence and to all involved in organising the stage 2 and 3 amendment processes. I extend my particular thanks to the clerks and supporting staff of the Rural Affairs and Islands Committee for their hard work. From the beginning of the bill's process, Scottish Liberal Democrats have been broadly supportive of their legislation. We committed to implementing the recommendations of the grouse moor management group's review, chaired by Professor Huwerty. We recognise the need for action to address raptor persecution, noting that while most estates that shoot grouse are run responsibly, there was not sufficient evidence that the situation regarding raptor persecution had improved since the Wildlife and Natural Environment Scotland Act 2011. Wildlife crime and raptor persecution is never acceptable, and I hope that future reviews of the legislation will demonstrate its effectiveness in reducing instances of this crime. The bill introduces a licensing scheme for land that is used for the shooting of red grouse. At stage 1, I raised concern that the bill would grant licences for only one year. That was at odds with the consensus from stakeholders in NatureScot that a longer licence period would be preferable and correspond to similar schemes. I supported the amendment at stage 2, which changed the licence period to five years, improving this aspect of the bill. Scottish ministers are required by the bill to create two codes of practice, one relating to licences to shoot red grouse and one on how to make mureburn safely and appropriately. Both codes need to be workable and proportionate and have relevant stakeholders involved in their creation. There has been much debate over the use of an arbitrary depth measurement to define peatland in the bill. I am persuaded that when done correctly, mureburn burns only the vegetation on top of the soil. I supported the addition of a requirement in the bill for the Scottish ministers to approve training courses on mureburn and the mureburn code. Therefore, under the new provisions, all those conducting mureburn under licence will be trained, and that should reassure those with concerns about mureburn that takes place on peatland. Turning now to other provisions in the bill, at stage 1, I noted my concern regarding evidence that the committee received on the lack of alternatives to glue traps and the potential impacts on banning them on the ability to control rodents in public health settings. I welcome amendments that the Scottish Government has made enabling ministers to make a scheme for the authorisation of glue traps for the purpose of protecting public health. While I trust that the Scottish Government will continue to engage with industry as research into alternatives to glue traps develops, I consider this limited authorisation necessary to safeguard against outbreaks in settings with enhanced public health risk. It is important that there is monitoring and evaluation of any new law. I note the Scottish Gamekeepers Association's opposition to the banning of snares and their view that humane holding devices were not fully assessed. The impacts of this bill must be evaluated to ensure that it is acting proportionately and fairly. I supported amendments to include a review of the bill's operation and effectiveness, and I would ask that the minister to give assurance that the Scottish Government will bring forward changes if a review shows it is needed. I hope that this bill's process has brought a better understanding of the rural way of life as something to be valued. Those who work and live on the land have demonstrated their passion for our rural areas. Important discussions that affect rural areas need to engage all communities and not just be viewed through an urban lens. I also hope that we can all agree that Scotland's unique countryside and wildlife are to be celebrated and protected. As a member of the Rural Affairs and Islands Committee, I can confirm that the bill has been the subject of rigorous debate and scrutiny since it was first brought to the Parliament. In the end, despite some of the more colourful comment, I believe that the committee managed to steer some sort of middle path and did improve the bill. This week, at stage 3, the chamber has gone through the legislation with a similarly fine-toothed comb. That, as was pointed out at stage 1, is a bill that deals with subjects as disparate as raptor, persecution and rat traps. If I may deal with the latter first, since it has been raised this week as an issue in amendments at stage 3, the Government and the committee faced no simple task in reaching a workable solution. I hope that we have, however, reached a reasonable solution this week by seeking to move glue traps out of the use by the general public while retaining residual powers to deal with any scenarios such as an outbreak and a healthcare setting, for example. Perhaps a more substantial part of the bill's scope is that which deals with the issue of raptor persecution. Raptor persecution is, by its very nature and location, a crime largely committed without witnesses. I hope that the bill, which we have now put together, provides the means that we need to tackle the issue more effectively. We certainly received much evidence that the criminal standard of evidence, as it was currently applied around raptor persecution, was proving virtually impossible to meet. I do not doubt that the vast majority of land managers are working within the law. However, a licensing scheme around grouse moore estates is a proportionate response to ensuring that raptor persecution, where it does happen, is being tackled. Indeed, when so many other areas of activity operate via a licensing scheme, I think that this is a more proportionate response than some of the criminalising alternatives. Snaring is a substantial part of the bill, and I believe that we are aligning Scotland's criminal law here with other European nations, with a ban on the use of snares. On the issue of moore burn, again, there has been improvement to a number of areas of the bill. A number of the amendments that were tabled at stage 2 recognise that not all the alternatives to moore burn are necessarily practical and that allowance should be made for that fact. I am pleased that an amendment in my own name making that point was accepted at stage 2. The committee heard evidence from a variety of sectors, including crofting, seeking to make sure that this and other issues were not overlooked. I believe that, as in other areas of the bill, an improved wording has been arrived at. There are areas of the bill that, for some interest groups, will always remain contended and contentious. That is the nature of any legislation that touches on biodiversity, animal welfare and land management practices. That bill does all of those things. However, in my view, it is a necessary and a balanced measure, and it has been subjected to a process of rigorous scrutiny and improvement, which I believe means that we should vote for it now. Thank you, Dr Allan. I now call Finlay Carson to be followed by Ariane Bridges. The catalyst for the legislation was the review by Professor Warrity, which was reported in December 2019. Four years on, we will see the introduction of licensing schemes for grouse shooting, Muirburn and Wildlife Traps. Professor Warrity's flagship recommendation was clear that the question over whether or not grouse shooting should be licensed was a matter to be addressed in December 2024, five years on from the review's publication. It was envisaged at such a decision that we have predicated on the ecological favourability of grouse Muirmanagement with reference to Golden Eagles, Henharriers and Peregrine Falkins. Ministers, however, pressed ahead with their own interpretation of the recommendations without sufficient assessment of the foresaid ecological favourability, clearly not in the spirit of good evidence-based policymaking. Should we be surprised, given that rural communities feel increasingly marginalised by the SNP-Green Government's anecdotal, rather than scientific approach to traditional rural sectors? Can I remind the chamber that this bill was intended to deter raptor persecution linked to grouse Muirmanagement in Scotland? We are all united that raptor persecution is absolutely deplorable and there is no place for it in modern-day society. This bill should have been a fantastic opportunity to address this heinous crime, but it has fallen short, taking away some of the tools that are critical for good wildlife management. There has been significant progress in driving down raptor persecution over the years and I believe that we all recognise that it is a tiny minority of grouse Muir's that engage in this illegal activity. Many Moorland managers are doing incredible work in the name of conservation and are wholeheartedly committed to helping raptors to flourish. It is critical that the licensing of grouse shooting does not detract from those operators who are doing everything right and more. In a nature crisis, we cannot afford to compromise extensive private investment that has been shown to deliver decisive net gains for biodiversity through good Moorland management. However, this bill is disproportionate to those who are doing tremendous things for conservation and will ultimately hold licences to shoot grouse. Grouse Muir's are being singled out, targeted even by ministers and certainly the Greens in the Scottish Labour with the desire to bring in anti-country sports. This bill gives the Scottish Government broad enabling powers to add further species to this licensing scheme. Constituencies like my own are heavily reliant on other types of game shooting, including pheasant, red-leg, partridge and duck. The possibility that those birds could be brought into scope of this scheme by regulation is extremely worrying, not least because the entire premise of this scheme is about deterring the persecution of raptors in relation to grouse Muir's. The mission creep that we have seen with this bill has been quite astonishing and it is important that I and others on these benches make clear that this bill exceeds what is set out to do, including banning, glue traps and snare policies that have been brought in after the bill was laid. The Scottish Government knows just what is at stake if landowners invest in Muirland management for grouse shooting decide to pack up and go home. They know it because they commissioned research to better understand the socio-economic and biodiversity impacts of grouse Muir management. That research could not have been clearer on the benefits this sector brings to rural Scotland. More jobs for hectare than any other comparable land use, employing gamekeepers, shepherds as well as countless seasonal workers in the form of beaters, flankers, pickers-up and hospitality staff. The highest level of local and regional spending compared to other land uses, stimulating rural businesses across the business divide from garages to game dealers. No public subsidies, unlike some NGOs, in return for delivering conservation for some of our most threatened upland birds, including curlew, latwing, black grouse, oyster catchers and golden plover. This is a sector that we need to support, not to incentivise. In closing, I want to put on record my thanks to the committee clerks and my committee members and all stakeholders that I have had the privilege of engaging with in this bill. It has been an interesting experience being at the sharp end of a topic that clearly divides. Success now depends on NatureScot taking heed of the considered views of those who will ultimately have to obtain these licences. I call Ari Ambergus to be followed by Emma Harper. Presiding Officer, this legislation is a momentous step forward in the laws protecting the welfare of Scotland's wildlife. Raptor persecution was described by the late First Minister, Donald Jure, in the early days of this Parliament as a national disgrace. Today, we can take confidence that the window of opportunity has closed for those few individuals who continue to perpetrate crimes against our birds of prey and other wildlife. Indeed, since there have been Scottish Greens in this Parliament, we have demanded tougher penalties for those who commit wildlife crime and an end to blood sport and the wildlife management practices associated with it. While the bill does not go as far as to entirely outlaw grouse shooting, it makes no mistake that the robust licensing system passed today will regulate that industry and the small number within it that continues to flout the law. The legislation was a fundamental component of the Butehouse agreement that brought the Scottish Greens into government. It is built on the legacy of work by my Scottish Green colleagues, past and present, who have campaigned with steadfast determination for a full ban on snares, tougher restrictions on the use of inhumane wildlife traps and increased powers for animal welfare inspectors and restrictions on mureburn to address the climate emergency. All of those measures have made it into the bill before us today. I want to take a moment to highlight the important provisions on extending the powers of Scottish SPCA inspectors that have been secured. For more than a decade, shameful wildlife crimes have gone on unpunished because of the difficulties faced by the police to gather evidence to secure prosecutions. Such crimes often occur in remote isolated areas with evidence disappearing by the time the police arrive on the scene. SSPCA inspectors who may arrive earlier as part of their duties have found themselves unable to take action on illegally set traps in the vicinity. The extension of SSPCA inspectors' powers to gather evidence to aid police prosecutions is a proportionate way forward, enhancing the work of the police and should bring more of those who perpetuate wildlife crime to justice. However, that progress could not have been achieved without the tireless work of stakeholders from animal welfare and environmental organisations. I would like to extend personal thanks to the brilliant RSVB Scotland team, the dedication of Revive Coalition, Trees for Life and the third sector's animal welfare champions, including one kind. The IUCN peatland programme also provided valuable impartial advice based on the latest science, which has certainly deepened my understanding of the vital importance of protecting our fragile peatland ecosystems. This is a significant step forward in bringing Scotland's wildlife management into the 21st century, but, as with any legislation, there is more that I hope to see this Parliament act on in the future. The conversation on implementing ethical principles for wildlife control, which the Rural Affairs Committee started during the Hunting with Dogs Act last year and continued to hear in stakeholder evidence during stage 1 of the bill should not end. I think that there is more that the Government can do in the years ahead to implement these in a meaningful way, just about winding up. Members working on this bill have also heard about the emerging science in the areas of raptor population recovery, the control of wildfire, the environmental impacts on mureburn and the restoration of peatland. Eleanor Wittam's amendment passed on Tuesday evening commits the Government to review the legislation every five years. Between now and then, we should use that time to improve our evidence-based data sources and ensure that the legislation continues to deliver for Scotland's wildlife and uplands for generations to come. The Scottish Greens wholeheartedly support this bill and I am proud to vote for it today. Emma Harper is the final speaker in the open debate. Thank you, Presiding Officer. I welcome the opportunity to speak in the stage 3 debate, particularly as a member of the RIA committee, and I moved a number of amendments in the bill, both at stage 2 and stage 3, with much thanks and appreciation for the minister helping me on that. The bill, which supports wildlife management and mureburn, has been interesting to be part of all the scrutiny process. I am going to focus my comments mostly on birds of prey. Fundamentally, we know that the illegal killing of Scotland's magnificent birds of prey cannot be tolerated, and members across the chamber have already stated that. It is therefore right that the bill will seek to tackle the destructive minority who would continue to commit these wildlife crimes. I also thank, especially as a representative of a large rural area in the South Scotland region, that it is important to put on record that the Scottish Government does recognise the economic contribution of grouse shooting to Scotland's economy. While life crime is abhorrent, it is reprehensible and unacceptable, and the persecution of birds of prey has no place in a modern Scotland. It is also completely at odds with work to address the biodiversity crisis, which is supported by so many people and organisations, including across the whole of Scotland. I do not know how much time there is to take interventions. We are very tight for time this afternoon. Very tight? I will not, actually. I will just keep going. Raptor persecution is a serious problem in some parts of Scotland, particularly in areas linked to driven grouse shooting. We just heard another report four hours ago on a missing hen harrier called Shalimar, the fourth bird to suspiciously disappear from the Angus Glen. That was just four hours ago. Of the 131 tired golden eagles analysed in the fielding and wetfield report in 2017, 41 birds suspiciously disappeared and were assumed to have been killed. Since that report, a further eight golden eagles reported by RSPB, eight golden eagles, 21 hen harriers and five white-tailed eagles, and a red kite were recorded as stopped normal function-tagged birds on Scottish ground grouse moors. We know Merrick, the female golden eagle, which was translocated from the Angus Glen to south of Scotland region, was reported missing. She was last recorded on 12 October in an area of the Scottish borders associated with grouse moor management. The bill will include monitoring and reporting and improving investigation powers of any incidents reported. The Scottish Government recognises that grouse shooting contributes absolutely immensely to the rural economy, and the bill is not about stopping this activity. It is interesting to note that we keep hearing that the Scottish National Party does not care about rural, but it is interesting that there are 29 SNP members here and online and only five Tories in chamber and three online, so it is really interesting for me to see these numbers. I have said that I am not taking any interventions. The Scottish Government recognises that grouse shooting contributes immensely to the rural economy, and it is worth repeating that. For many years, conservation groups have reported the number of raptors over grouse moors to be lower than expected. Other issues that I want to touch base on, because I realise for a short time that the introduction of moor burn licensing, one of the subjects that relates to my bill's amendments, will ensure that moor burn is undertaken in a safe, environmentally sustainable manner in line with best practice. The licensing scheme will allow moor burn for a number of purposes, including preventing and reducing the risk of wildfires. I know that time is really short. The bill is important in ensuring that the balance between conservation, moor burn and wildlife management is supported and sustained. My final point, Presiding Officer, is that I thank the committee clerks, all the witnesses and colleagues for their input into the bill. Thank you. We move to winding up speed chase. I call on Colin Smith up to four minutes, please. Presiding Officer, it has been a long stage three process, but it has been an even longer way for action to disrupt that and then I will link between driving grouse moors and raptor persecution. Rhoda Grant reminded us that it is nearly 14 years since Labour MSP Peter Peacock brought an amendment to the wildlife and natural environment bill to establish license, and it was dismissed at the time by the SNP as too far reaching. When I look back at the dozens of unsuccessful amendments that I have had to this bill, I am comforted by the fact that Parliament does eventually get round to agreeing with Labour. I suspect that the exception to this will be the Conservatives if their contributions in this debate are anything to go by with their warnings of Armageddon for rural Scotland just because of licensing. The truth is, Presiding Officer, they do not speak for rural Scotland on this issue. Rural Scotland overwhelmingly backs these reforms and, in fact, they wanted to go further as Poland has shown. It should, Presiding Officer, and it could have been better, but it was not because if the contribution of Conservatives had been many a noisy. I have to say that I am disappointed at the silence of the Greens throughout this process. Not a single amendment to this bill was pressed by a single green MSP. Many amendments were brought forward to improve animal welfare, but on every occasion the Scottish Greens voted with the Tories against them and against the very views of the animal welfare charities that Ariana Burgess listed earlier. Presiding Officer, has a party ever voted? I will give way on that point, absolutely. I do not know if he has recognised that the fact that the Greens are now a party of government, that we have been influencing and working on this bill for some time, including the important provision of SSPCA powers, that probably would not be in this bill, was it not as a result of the Bute House agreement and the amazing work that the Government has done on the back of that? The Rallied is Mark Ruskell fails to explain why, when we had stage 2 and stage 3 amendments, he took the whip from Edward Mountain more than he did, listening to the animal welfare charities. Dozens of amendments were put forward. Mr Ruskell voted against every single one of them, many of them. He thinks that it is amusing that we cannot even have improvements to the bill that could have been achieved if his party had stuck to its policies and its principles. I want to thank those who did stick to their principles, who campaigned for reform for so long. The Revive Coalition members, one kind, League Against Cruel Sports, Raptor persecution UK, Commonwealth, Friends of the Earth, charities like RSPB, the SSPCA, Scottish Badgers and so many others. It was their tenacity, persistence and determination that led to this bill in the first place. A bill that will end the cruelty of snare-in, a bill that will call time on the barbaric use of glue traps, that will properly utilise the immense skills of professionalism, the experience of the SSPCA in the battle against wildlife crime, and a bill that will pave the way for the long overdue licensing of traps in Muirburn and Argyll Smyr. I am sorry, we did not succeed in making the bill stronger. It will remain a mystery to me why Green and SNP MSPs joined with the Tories to block even modest improvements such as the recording of numbers in species killed to improve our understanding of species biodiversity. We have to be honest also that this bill will not end the mass killing of one animal to protect another solely for the purpose of then killing that animal for sport, the so-called circle of destruction that Revive described. I also want to thank those who will feel that the bill does go too far, groups like BAS, the Gamekeepers Association Scotland, Land and Estate. They put forward a number of constructive changes to improve the working of the bill and we backed some of those changes. I know it will be the skills, the experience of our land managers, our gamekeepers and others who work their land, who will implement the bill and who will continue to manage and protect their countryside. They have absolutely nothing to fear from this bill and what is a modest overdue licensing scheme, a scheme that will protect the innocent but start to rid the grousemure industry of the minority who bring it into disrepute.  I hope that, as a result of this bill, their time, Presiding Officer, will at long last be well and truly up. Thank you, and I call on Edward Mountain up to five minutes, please. Thank you very much, Presiding Officer. Where do I start? It's been a heated subject and I guess that I would say that I don't think anyone across the whole of the chamber would sanction or approve it in any shape or form, any form of wildlife persecution. It's just not on. I've made this point on numerous occasions and it needs to stop.  I thought I was going to enjoy talking about a subject which has taken up a huge period of my life and I have enjoyed engaging with the committee and with some of the groups that sought to change some of the activities that I've been involved in during the course of my life. Most of those engagements have been good-natured, although we've agreed to disagree, and I hope that, as things continue, dialogue can still continue on an open and frank basis. There's been an unusual bill. We've seen a new section added at stage two, which I always think is not good for a parliamentary procedure. We've unfortunately seen a change of ministers. I understand the reason for that. Then we saw a minister arguing against his own amendments at stage two, which have found quite odd and went challenged about it the other day in the chamber. The minister said that, since becoming a minister, his eyes had been opened and he was aware of more figures. Well, it's a pity that wasn't the case during the debate. Then, at stage three, we saw an about turn on glue traps, so I think it's been a bit of a roller coaster ride. I want to talk just about glue traps very briefly. My time is very short, I understand that. I'm disappointed that we are where we are with glue traps in some respects. I hope that the minister will bear in mind that there are plenty of times when road denticides are not appropriate to be used, certainly in schools, in my opinion, hospitals and educational, sorry, schools, hospitals and also in restaurants. You don't want dead rats and mice lying around and certainly those who smelt them when they've been behind floorboards could put you off more than just your dinner. I think that glue traps are something that we should be considering. I'm disappointed on snaring and I made no bones about the fact that removing snaring as a tool I think is regressive and it will end up bringing firearms closer to urban conurbations and I think that's bad news. I also think it's very difficult to control rabbits and I'm just going to quote the example on one particular patch I managed in one year alone. We had to kill 12,000 rabbits to maintain and look after the designated habitats within there. As far as trapping generally is concerned, I think that there are bits of it that I'm unhappy with. I do actually welcome the Government's point of bringing forward damage to traps. I think that was helpful and I do hope that the Government will make sure that they follow that through. When it comes to mule burn, I am concerned. I remain deeply concerned. Everyone thinks that mule burn is just something done to promote grass shooting. It's absolutely not done just purely for grass shooting. I think that as Kate Forbes in the stage 2 debate made it clear that mule burn is vital for protecting communities, making sure that there isn't a heavy fuel load within and close to habitation. Also, it's about managing the actual vegetation on the hill and that's not just for grass. Yes, species do need long rank heather to nest in. Hen harriers prefer that and they would prefer to nest on burn edges where there is this longer heather. To allow them to do well on the moor, they need to have the prey species that will benefit from the shorter heather, whether that be grass or other birds. In the case of eagles, they probably benefit from having the shorter vegetation that hares can go. I think that we will need to monitor and I would urge the Minister to monitor carefully the effects of mule burn, the effects on all wildlife. It's not just about grass. If necessary, come back with amendments at a later stage to try and make it more easy to carry out in the benefit of managing our high hills. Presiding Officer, just to conclude if I may, I did find one thing amusing in the debate and that was a justification for making something that was already illegal in case anyone illegally makes it legal in the future, which was the argument that the Minister put forward to on making traps for killing birds illegal. The twisted logic of it perhaps defines a lot of this bill. Thank you, Presiding Officer. As I close, I would like to thank again the members of the Rural Affairs Committee and Parliament, in particular the committee clerks and those who have spoken today, and for all of those organisations who have contributed to the debate. At the inception of this Parliament, it was hailed as the people's parliament and the level of engagement and participation through this and many other bills demonstrates how much better legislation is when the Government and the people engage to get it right, so I want to thank everyone who has done so to get us here today. I am much of my closing remarks to those listening right now. Finally, and this is probably my most important thank you, because the only way that this very new Minister was able to manage a stage 2 with 23 groupings and over 200 amendments and now a stage 3 with 15 groupings and over 100 amendments is because of the absolutely brilliant team supported by outstanding policy and legal officials who have helped me every step of the way in navigating the complexity of making complex law. They do all the heavy lifting, and I am not sure that many of us in this chamber really realise just how hard Scotland's civil servants work in the service of Scotland, so I give my thanks to them for their expertise, for their diligence, but most of all for their patience. Presiding Officer, as someone whose entire life, our entire adult life hasn't all very recently been bound by the rhythms of nature, the ebb and flow of seasons, the understanding of new life and of course the acceptance of deaths, acceptance of death that is the reality of our natural environment, then it's perhaps fitting that this has been my first bill as a minister. It is vital part of the Scottish Government's wider programme of work to protect and restore our wildlife, biodiversity and natural environment. It builds on the strong foundations of the animals and wildlife penalties, protections and powers of Scotland Act 2020, the 2020 hunting of dogs act that we passed in chamber last year. Presiding Officer, as a young man, I remember being brought up in a council housing estate in Perth to over 30 years of working on the land. I have always had a love and a passion for our countryside and the wildlife that we share with it. I have lived through some great highs and very real lows in my farming career and I'd briefly like to touch on that point and make a comparison to those folk who we rely on now to manage our landscapes. Today, most folk in our country and most certainly in this Government absolutely get that farmers play a vital role in our society and in serving the nation by providing the raw product to feed us and to generate income that we spend more widely, by enhancing our environment and working with nature. A new ag reform bill will do even more to strengthen that symbiotic relationship, the respect that we have for each other and to cement that absolutely vital relationship. It's not that long ago where it was farmers who were seen as the villains. With the BSc, Frankenstein Foods and Food and Mouth, all those things had the industry on the rack and feeling as though they were public enemy number one. As a young shepherd with a very young family in a tied house, I am well aware of the anxiety that that uncertainty can bring. During that bill, we have been reminded of that uncertainty that hangs over a group of rural workers in regards to housing, which the housing minister has agreed to meet with me to discuss, but I will revisit that at a later date. By engagement with the public, by looking at the positive stories, by reminding folk of the good work that farmers do, the narrative started to change and attitudes changed with it. We now have a healthy relationship between farmers and consumers, which is to be celebrated and continued. That, Presiding Officer, is the opportunity which the passing of this bill affords the rural practitioners on grouse moors and in game businesses. It's a demonstration that this industry is regulated and adhered to by hardworking responsible people who love the natural environment as much, and if not more so, then we all do. That should be celebrated. If the BBC can make blockbuster viewing figures from the heroes in this farming life, then why not the environmental heroes in this moorland life? They could do worse than starting off with the aforementioned D-word in the Rotla estate, which I've already stated is doing amazing work. When taking this bill forward, the Government and all the ministers who have helped this passage were clear that balance was the key to making this legislation work for all. Our aim was clear. The tiny number of bad apples should be weeded out. We will far more consider in our burnings. We will have the highest standards of animal welfare that demonstrates that this industry will do its job better than anyone could have imagined was possible, and it will gain the respect that it so richly deserves by being the custodians of the landscapes and of the standards that society expects and wants. I urge the industry to grab this opportunity and make it their quest to be recognised not just in Scotland but across the world as the beating heart of an environment that we can all be proud of for generations to come. For the benefit of our environment, for our wildlife and for our rural communities, I urge all members to pass the wildlife management and moorburn Scotland bill today. That concludes the debate on wildlife management and moorburn Scotland bill at stage 3. It's now time to move on to the next item of business, which is consideration of parliamentary bureau motion 12592 on committee membership, and I ask George Adam on behalf of the parliamentary bureau to move the motion. The question on this motion will be put at decision time. There are two questions to be put as a result of today's business. The first question is that motion 12535 in the name of Jim Fairlie on wildlife management and moorburn Scotland bill be agreed, and as this is a motion to pass the bill at stage 3, the question must be decided by division, so there will be a short suspension to allow members to access the digital voting system.


A new telescope for mapping the skies is about to start work at ESO's Paranal Observatory in Chile. The VLT Survey Telescope, or VST, with the 268 megapixel omega-cam camera at its heart, is the latest addition to the observatory. It is the largest telescope in the world designed to survey the sky in visible light. This is the ESOcast, cutting-edge science and life behind the scenes of ESO, the European Southern Observatory, exploring the ultimate frontier with our host Dr. J, aka Dr. Joe Liske. Hello and welcome to the ESOcast. The new telescope is called the VLT Survey Telescope, or VST, for short, and the special thing about it is that it has a very wide field of view, about twice as broad as the full moon. It's dedicated to mapping the skies both very quickly and with very high image quality. The VST is housed in an enclosure right next to the VLT unit telescopes on the summit of Cerro Paranal, under the pristine skies of one of the best observing sites on the planet. Now over the next few years, the VST and its huge camera omega-cam will be busy making some very detailed maps of the southern skies. And in this episode, you'll get to see the very first released images from this brand new telescope. The VST is a visible light telescope that perfectly complements the Vista infrared survey telescope. The unique combination of the VST and Vista will allow many interesting objects to be identified that can then be studied in detail with the powerful telescopes of the VLT. The VST is a state-of-the-art 2.6-meter telescope equipped with an active optics system that keeps the two mirrors of the telescope perfectly aligned at all times in order to ensure the highest possible image quality. Now at its core, behind huge lenses, lies the omega-cam camera, which was built around no less than 32 CCD detectors, which together provide a whopping 268 megapixel image. Now the camera also contains some extra CCDs that help with the telescope guiding and the active optics system, as well as some absolutely enormous colour filters. Both the telescope and the camera were designed to take full advantage of the excellent observing conditions on Paranal. The VST is a joint venture between ENAF, the Italian National Institute for Astrophysics, and ESO. ENAF, and in particular its Capodimonte observatory in Naples, designed and built the telescope, while ESO was responsible for the civil engineering works at the site. Omega-cam was built and designed by a consortium of astronomers working in the Netherlands, Germany, Italy, and at ESO. The VST will make three public surveys over the next five years. One survey called Kids will image several regions of the sky away from the Milky Way. It will help astronomers understand more about dark matter, dark energy, and galaxy evolution, and find many new galaxy clusters and high redshift quasars. The VST Atlas survey will cover a larger area of sky and will focus on determining the properties of dark energy. Like kids, it will also hunt for far away galaxies and quasars. The third survey, VFAS+, will image the central plane of the Milky Way to map the structure of the galactic disk and its star formation history. It will yield a catalogue of around 500 million objects and will discover many new examples of unusual stars at all stages of their evolution. The data volume produced by Omega-cam is going to be pretty large with about 30 terabytes of raw data produced every year. Now these data are going to flow back into data centers in Europe for processing. The huge lists of objects found in the images, as well as the images themselves, will then be made public. So that astronomers from all over the world can use the VST data to help them figure out the answers to a vast range of different astronomical questions. The VST has just made its first release of images. The spectacular Omega Nebula, also known as the Swan Nebula, is a region of gas, dust, and hot young stars that lies in the heart of the Milky Way. The VST field of view is so large that the entire nebula, including its fainter outer parts, is captured and retains its superb sharpness across the entire field. Omega Centauri is the largest globular cluster in the sky, but the VST, with its very wide field of view, has no problem in capturing the whole object in a single image, including its very faint outer regions. This image contains about 300,000 stars and it highlights the impressive sharpness of the VST's images. The combination of large field of view, excellent image quality, and the very efficient operation scheme of the VST will produce an enormous wealth of information that will advance a number of different fields of astrophysics. Many astronomers, including myself actually, are really looking forward to the first results from the VST surveys. This is Dr Jay, signing off for the ESOcast. Join me again next time for another cosmic adventure.


Hey guys, we have an issue with this scooter gonna pull the brake. Here's the starter button Nothing every once in a while you can get it to go, but that's what it is So let's take this apart and find out why it's doing that to take this apart There's a screw right down in here, and there's another one down here in the bottom right back in there So in order to get to them we've got to take this This cowling off of here, so In order to take that off we've got a screw here supposed to be one in there and one there, so let's take them out and We'll see if we can get this fixed Okay guys, here's the top screw And there's the bottom screw right under there I forgot to tell you there is also one in the front that you have to take off down here at the bottom Get your headlight assembly out right down there So what we need to do is we need to get you on the stand and let's take them screws out so we can Okay, so monkey's having a yard sale Copycat Thought I made myself real clear on past videos about copycat. Yeah, but I sold the jewelry box You made 30 bucks And it was free Yeah, cuz I'm patient of mine gave it to me now you got a ways to go before you catch up to me But anyway, back to this thing cuz I sold a lot of stuff. I don't either Okay, so let's go and get this off of here. So we're gonna take this screw out These are just Phillips Phillips head screws Nothing special, but I'm not sure what is wrong with it Dirty contacts, maybe we'll just have to get in here and find out Right bunk. Okay.  Okay, so up in here There's the switch. There's two screws and I'll bring you over here. So you can see this a little better So it's this bottom one right here All right, there's the switch so You know There's two screws that hold that in now they're spring in here So you got to be careful if you take take this apart and I'm speaking from experience. I Have lost them springs And I found it by stepping on it and ruining it And I usually have to make another one back y'all a little bit here You get the idea right there's two screws in here dead spider. There's that little spring. I was talking about Right there Get my hands so you can see it. Okay. There's that looks a little dirty. I will clean that up What that does is there's a contact here and a contact there I'm gonna zoom in a little bit and these make contact right so I'm guessing that contact made me dirty So let's turn the key on with the break nothing so Let's go ahead And I'll get some stuff and we'll clean this out if I or just crossed here should crank but Like doing things that way So anyway, let me get some Cleaner and I'll clean this out and we'll see if we can't get it going Okay, guys. I don't think I hit record So I may have some lost footage here. What I did was I just took a piece of sandpaper It doesn't actually it doesn't have to be this this coarse grit This is 60 you can you know use Use a little nail file whatever I cleaned them up and I cleaned the the spring too, so Let's try this out. Let's do this again. All right now. Let's get it back together. I know I'm saying this again, but still got to get the Gotta get that bolt. I got one. I think I may be able to make work, but I'm not sure Got one out of a Toyota These can be finicky, but just You know Because it's got to go in that little and I can't show you because I can't be in there But I think I showed a lot of it on my On the video when I changed this throttle There we go And they're not seeing a damn thing Nope No, because I didn't have it right if you guys remember right I had to put that tape around there to get this the whole Solemn cuz somebody broke that tab off of it. So All right, so now I need to get these screws started. Let me get the top one started like that and move you around here Just a quick fix. What's the temperature? You don't have the thing on your phone No, I do Okay, there you go put this back up on here.  All right monkey I'm not trying to be a smartass. I'm just saying if you you know if you don't have patience for this kind of thing You don't want to do this because you end up losing that spring and You can't get another one And if you really don't know how to do it, then you probably don't know how to make a spring so Get this screw in here start it anyway Yes, it's like monkey very very touchy Got what watch what you say or do around these things Okay, so let me start this front one I know you guys can't see up under there, but it's there trust me I Could have took it for a ride earlier. I had a crank kick started it for you. Yeah, you saw me kick start it Yeah, but if you want to I started in anyway, where's the You can look down in here and you can see the whole it goes into there we go now make sure you're top Put in there It's not tight yet Some monkey wants to go for a ride you guys want to see her go for a ride. They've seen you right it.  Sorry got one more right here. I don't follow Kill myself here. I'm fine. All right Let's say if it'll start. Okay. Oh, it's good.  I'll talk to you guys later. Thanks for watching They can see you. How good when she buried met the man legend. Keep cool The monkey's on scooter. She scared the gas that she was like barely creeping. I said gas it. She finally gassed it We'll watch her come back She's getting it There she is one time when I said I'll be back with you We had somebody here she sold that jewelry box and the guy got in the truck and he come back an older gentleman who's nice people He come back and he says It's good ring for sale. Is it I said yeah at the same time. She said no And he said well listen. I said yeah, and she goes well We don't really want to sell it and blah blah blah so he kind of backed off on it She did because she's always telling me you need to sell that thing you need to sell it I got the chance.  Who's scooter? Did you guys hear that? She said my scooter. No, it's my that's mine Oh, okay. Yeah, go for it Tell him bye Make sure you give that thing some gas. It's not meant to be run slow. It's air cool Gas it go mama for the second time she barely met the man legend and gone for now Enjoy the rest of your weekend I'm gonna try people waving. I'm gonna try to try to sell some stuff make some more money.


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