Some types of farming in Scotland could become “unviable” because of how environmentally damaging they are, a new report by government advisers has warned. The Just Transition Commission ...

REPRESENTATIVES of the UK's numerous sheep breeds came together at the recent National Sheep Association Breed Society Forum in Melton Mowbray last week. All NSA-affiliated breed societies were ...

The RBST is the national charity that works to save UK native breeds of livestock and equines that are at risk of extinction. There are a number of breeds with a Scottish heritage that are on the RBST ...

News alert: the sheep of Scotland are shrinking! On Soay Island, off the western coast of Scotland, wild sheep are apparently defying the theory of evolution and progressively getting smaller.

Did you know the Shetland sheep is a rare breed? What about that it's one of a few breeds that produce a true, ink-black ...

After that they had to narrow it down to what type. "Some native breeds in Scotland are becoming ever ... curly-horned sheep were originally bred in the 1920s by Sir John Buchanan-Jardine for his ...

A Stewartry woman has been elected as chair of Rare Breeds Survival Trust Scotland. Rebecca McLellan, who keeps rare Castlemilk Moorit sheep at her farm near Rockcliffe takes on the role at RBST ...