Natural environment
18(1)Assisting persons to carry out activities that monitor, preserve, protect, improve or restore biodiversity and the natural environment (in any respect).
(2)Assisting persons to set aside land for the natural environment and to prevent further biodiversity loss.
(3)Assisting persons to carry out deer management activities in order to enhance or protect the natural environment.
(4)Compensating persons in respect of additional costs incurred and income lost by the person in consequence of the implementation of environmental improvement measures including, in particular, measures taken in consequence of an enactment or international agreement.
(5)Assisting persons to carry out activities that preserve or protect land, water, the water holding capacity of land or other resources from the natural environment or human activity (for example, by promoting flood resilience or controlling invasive non-native species).
(6)Assisting persons who have sustained loss or damage in consequence of—
(a)the reintroduction of a native species of plant or animal (including species which were, but are no longer, native to the area of reintroduction by reason of having become extinct in part or all of Scotland),
(b)the activity of a species of wild animal—
(i)which is considered by the Scottish Ministers to have conservation value, and
(ii)the killing or control of which is limited or prohibited by an enactment or an agreement (for example, a lease or other land management agreement).
(7)For the purposes of this paragraph, “animal” means a vertebrate (other than a human) or invertebrate.