European Tree of the Year Competition

The motion

That the Parliament notes that the last tree from Scotland to be represented in the 2015 European Tree of the Year competition is Lady’s Tree, which is a Scots pine from the Scottish Wildlife Trust’s (SWT) Loch of the Lowes Visitor Centre and Reserve in Perthshire; understands that, since 1990, the tree has been the summer home of Lady, the UK’s oldest breeding osprey, who, over the last 25 years, has laid 71 eggs and fledged 50 chicks; congratulates the community and the SWT on championing the tree in the competition; further congratulates the Woodland Trust Scotland and the People’s Postcode Lottery in promoting this contest; notes that voting in the competition closes on 28 February, and encourages everyone with an interest to visit the treeoftheyear.org website and take part in the vote.

No recorded vote on this motion. Most motions are never debated, and many that are debated are agreed without a division. Vote records are published from 2011.

SNP 13 Lab 8

Party shown is each supporter’s party when the motion was published.

No contribution in the Official Report cites S4M-12273 by reference.