The latest edition of SEPA View, the quarterly magazine of the Scottish Environment Protection Agency (SEPA), is published today.

SEPA View 8 looks at the issues surrounding Scotland’s bathing waters and what steps are being taken to improve them. The European Water Framework Directive is explained with questions and answers on the principal points. The magazine covers green and sustainable tourism, highlighting public and private initiatives such as the Green Tourism Business Scheme. The Habitat Enhancement Initiative is also featured as SEPA seeks applications for this Annual Award Scheme from individuals or organisations who have helped protect and enhance habitats for wildlife.

SEPA View is a digest of environmental issues and features not only UK news, but what is happening worldwide. In issue 8 you can also read about:

• SEPA’s role in fish farming
  
• the Moray Firth Partnership
  
• SEPA gets tough on toxic paint
  
• the environmental importance of St Kilda
  
• SEPA’s new structure
  
• the real cost of bottled water
  
• New Zealand - protecting a unique environment
  
• Living in a Green House
  
• Worms on Waste
  
• other SEPA publications
  
• environmental prosecutions
  
• the lighter side of the environment in the regular round up “Gaberlunzie”
  

SEPA View 8 is on SEPA’s website at www.sepa.org.uk, and printed copies are available free of charge from SEPA Public Relations at the address below.

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