🚆A rare treat this morning: a direct train from Inverness to Edinburgh. Good rail connections make a real difference. Highland communities deserve more direct services like this.

Scotland generates enough wind, wave and solar to power us many times over—so why are bills still so high? Because the system delivers profits for shareholders, not lower bills for communities. The Scottish Greens are calling for community-owned energy, warmer homes, and local benefit.

📣 Nature Champions News! 📣 @ariane-burgess.bsky.social is the #NatureChampion for Atlantic Salmon! Ariane will be working with @scotwildlife.bsky.social + @ast-salmon.bsky.social to champion these endangered fish. Find out more www.scotlink.org/species/atla... CCBY4.0 ScotParl | Richard Davies

Scotland’s childcare system isn't working for too many families. Maternity pay ends at 9 months, but funded childcare doesn’t begin until age 3. That leaves families facing an impossible gap. Investing in childcare is investing in Scotland’s future. 💚 #Childcare #ScottishGreens #Families

Scotland should have the power to choose its own future. A future where we can rejoin the EU, tackle inequality, and protect public services. We’re not asking to leave. We’re asking to choose. 💚

Atlantic salmon 🐟 are in real danger, and they urgently need stronger protection and recovery. I’m delighted to be taking on the role of Species Champion for Atlantic salmon at the Scottish Parliament I look forward to working with others to help ensure Scotland’s wild salmon can thrive 🌊

Really proud to have spent the last parliamentary session as Species Champion for the Eurasian beaver and aspen tree 🦫🌿 From parliamentary questions to seeing beavers released in Glen Affric, it’s been a privilege to help champion nature recovery in Scotland.

Back at Holyrood and ready to get to work. I’m delighted to have been re-elected to represent the Highlands and Islands. With 15 Scottish Green MSPs, our biggest group ever, we’re stronger than ever in demanding better for our communities, our environment and Scotland’s future. 💚

I’m hiring a Communications and Operations Manager to join my team. If you’re a strong communicator and organised team leader who wants to make a real difference, I’d love to hear from you. Details and application information in the link below:

Flamingo Land just won't stop trying to destroy Loch Lomond with their mega resort proposals. But the Scottish Greens won't let them win; we will continue to fight alongside the community in Balloch to stop these destructive plans. #VoteScottishGreens

The system isn't broken, it's rigged. Our activists are delivering our message of hope all across the country and polls show we are on track for a record result. Let's demand better for Scotland. Vote @scottishgreens.org on 7th May! 🗳️💚

The US military has 22 sites in the UK. Every day long range US bombers are taking off here to drop bombs on Iran. This is a rogue state carrying out war crimes, and threatening more. The UK Government must grow a spine - and stop our bases being used for this war.

We want to work with trade unions and employers across Scotland to promote and normalise the benefits of a four-day working week, with no loss of pay ✅

🦫 Happy International Beaver Day 🦫 From watching beavers return to our areas like Glen Affric, to speaking up about illegal killings, together we can help bring these creatures back to the Scottish landscapes they belong in. #internationalbeaverday #beavers #scottishwildlife

It's been a pleasure and a privilege to serve as a Highlands & Islands MSP for the last session of Parliament 💚 The Parliament building has closed its doors, and I am now heading back to the region campaigning ahead of the election on 7th May. I hope to see you!

We need a pause in the expansion of salmon farming in Scotland. I have written to the First Minister and Cabinet Secretary for Rural Affairs to call for this.

Lets end all forms of homelessness in Scotland by 2040. Thanks to Crisis for their event 'The Road to Ending Homelessness'.

💚 Celebrating our 10,000 members! With the election coming up in May there's never been a better time to get involved and help us build a fairer, greener future.

Last full week of Parliament before it shuts down for the election period - here’s what I’ve been working on this week: As always, I’ll keep pushing for a fairer, greener Highlands and Islands 💚

In Parliament I raised the alarm about a landmark UK Government report and what it means for all of us here in the Highlands & Islands. I'm calling on ministers to seize this moment and act. Scotland cannot afford to wait.

Tomorrow Scotland can ban greyhound racing for good, as the Scottish Parliament takes its final vote on @markruskell.bsky.social's bill. This cruel 'sport' results in the deaths of hundreds of dogs in the UK and leaves tens of thousands injured. It's time it was finally brought to an end.

Record membership. Record polling. The ideas to build a fairer, greener, independent Scotland. There's never been a better time: www.greens.scot/join

Time to end greyhound racing for good! Today MSPs will vote on @markruskell.bsky.social bill to finally ban greyhound racing in Scotland. Greyhound racing is a cruel sport that has a terrible impact on the dogs who are risking their lives by being forced to run at such dangerous speeds.

Today MSPs will vote on my colleagues Mark Ruskell's bill to finally ban greyhound racing in Scotland I'm proud to support this bill. 109 greyhounds died trackside in the UK in 2023 and there were 4,238 injuries to greyhounds during racing. Time to end this cruel sport

A busy week in Parliament and across the Highlands and Islands. Here are a few highlights: With the Scottish Parliament set to dissolve on 26 March, there’s still important work to do for our communities and our environment.

Coul Links is one of Scotland’s most valuable, fragile and species-rich coastal dune systems. Allowing billionaire developers to destroy it for a golf course would be an act of gross environmental vandalism. www.thenational.scot/news/2592425...

Let’s stand together. Let’s celebrate women. On International Women’s Day, we celebrate the achievements, the progress, and the power of women everywhere. But we also raise our voices - calling out the violence, inequality, and abuse that women and girls continue to face #InternationalWomensDay #IWD

These are some of the ways I have represented the region as an MSP this week...

I am calling on the Scottish Government to make sure that travel into our region and from our region is better quality in terms of the rolling stock, the carriages that we sit in, and the systems so that trains can run on time. We need a much better investment in rail in the Highlands and Islands.

The starting dates for our £2 bus cap in the Highlands and Islands are out! 🟢 Shetland and Western Isles: already launched! 🟢 Orkney: March 9 🟢 Moray, Highland, Argyll & Bute: 23 March More money in your pocket, and a cleaner environment for everyone. 🙌

Great news for our island communities 💚 I’ve just come from the chamber where the Cabinet Secretary for Transport confirmed the end of seasonal peak fares for Shetland and Orkney islanders on NorthLink Ferries.

The childcare system is broken. Properly funded childcare should not be a luxury! The @scottishgreens.org want to see money kept in the pockets of parents across Scotland. That is why we are pledging to make childcare more accessible and affordable sooner for families.

🚨 NEW POLL! Poll after poll has the Green vote surging ahead of May's Scottish Parliament election. Together we can build a fairer, greener, independent Scotland. 👉 www.greens.scot/join

It's World Wildlife Day! I delighted to be celebrating Scotland's wildlife and the work the Scottish Greens have done to protect it. #ScottishGreens #WorldWildlifeDay

🌼Communities Day in Parliament It's brilliant to see so many people, who care about their communities doing incredible things for people, planet, place, and peace across Scotland. And who knows? Maybe there'll be some new MSPs coming out of this event.

Did you know there are only four weeks left of work in Parliament due to the election? Here are some of the ways I am representing the people in the Highlands and Islands this week...

Today we are at the @scottishgreens.org conference in Glasgow. Great to speak with Ariane Burgess MSP about restoring nature as a public good. Come and say hi you are here 👋

Greens beat Reform! 💚 Congratulations to Hannah Spencer and our friends @greenparty.org.uk on their historic by-election victory in Gorton and Denton. We will never let the politics of hate divide us. The Greens will always put people and planet before profit.

Well done Hannah Spencer in winning the seat in Gorton and Denton. The people there have said 'This is what we want. We want Green progressive ideas represented and brought forward in Westminster' Time to say that in Scotland too.

Watching beavers return to Glen Affric was genuinely moving. These extraordinary animals were absent from our landscape for hundreds of years, this felt like we’re righting a historical wrong. The fact that we are here, and beavers are back in the glen, is down to everyone who refused to give up.

Here are a few of the things I have done on your behalf this week: There is no newsletter while we head into the election period, but constituents are always welcome to contact me about my work or your issues. #HighlandsAndIslands #ScottishGreens

Glue traps are banned in Scotland from today. But the Scottish Government still hasn't told industry or stakeholders how it will be enforced. For legislation that took years to pass. Caught napping doesn't cover it.

Highlands and Islands communities fund and rely on our publicly owned airports. They deserve to know when those airports are being used for foreign military operations — and to have a say. No transparency. No consent. No accountability. I called for change.

Abolish the Monarchy.

"For people who rely on buses, this is not a small change. It is the difference between going out and staying in. Between taking up a shift at work and turning it down. Between seeing family and being cut off." Writes Ariane Burgess✍️

Moray Firth communities aren't against offshore wind. They're asking reasonable questions about sea life, fishing, boat routes and tourism. That deserves respect — not a process where millions of public money is spent before locals get any say. Speed cannot replace trust.

They've raised your rent, increased energy prices, and stagnated your wages. The super-rich are exploiting the people of Scotland. The same billionaires are now bankrolling Reform UK. We need to tax the super-rich and return power to our communities. #VoteScottishGreens

It's time to evict Trump's troops from Scotland. The US under Trump is increasingly becoming a rogue state, from invading Venezuela to threatening Greenland. Scotland must not be complicit in his crimes. 👉Take action - greens.scot/TrumpsTroopsOut