Biodiversity

Part of the debate – in the Scottish Parliament at on 17 January 2013.

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Photo of Jim Hume Jim Hume Liberal Democrat

I was not criticising any Government. I am trying to say that, if Scotland could build up its home-grown tree nursery industry, we would not have to import so many trees. The oil industry grew to the point at which we could not produce our own steel pipes, so we had to import them from Japan. We are perhaps in a similar situation with our tree industry. If we could build up our home-grown tree industry, we could perhaps address the biodiversity problem.