Best Practice Guidelines

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Wild Scotland provides advice and guidance to its members on responsible wildlife-watching operations. This advice includes our Best Practice Guidelines series.

These documents provide general advice for companies engaged in taking people to enjoy wildlife and complement existing codes of conduct for specific activities and species. The documents will be downloadable from this page shortly.

Best Practice Guidelines:

• Watching Wildlife By Boat
• Watching Wildlife From A Vehicle
• Watching Wildlife On Foot

Click here for further information and links relating to the Best Practice Guidelines.


Why Do We Need Best Practice Guidelines?
Responsible wildlife watching is a key thread of Wild Scotland's activities, however there are currently no guidelines for businesses. As the national wildlife and nature tourism operators association, we feel that we should be setting these standards, through the collective experience and knowledge of our members.

As the nature tourism sector increases, how do we make sure that our wildlife is not affected by the increasing number of people wanting to enjoy it?