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The Gary the Gull campaign began as a local initiative led by the\u00a0St Andrews Community Council\u00a0in response to growing concerns around gull-related issues affecting residents, businesses and public spaces across St Andrews and the wider North East Fife area. In the summer of 2025, the Community Council began exploring practical, community-led ways to address the challenges, with a focus on long-term behaviour change rather than short-term fixes.<\/p>\r\n\r\n
Building on this early work, the concept was invited to be presented at a national gull summit in Inverness in September 2025, hosted by\u00a0NatureScot\u00a0alongside Scotland\u2019s Agriculture Minister,\u00a0Jim Fairlie. The positive response helped shape the campaign into a structured pilot, designed to test how education, public awareness and community engagement could work together to reduce conflict between people and urban wildlife.<\/p>\r\n\r\n
Today, the pilot is being led by the St Andrews Community Council in collaboration with\u00a0Fife Council\u00a0and a growing network of local and national stakeholders. While rooted in St Andrews and North East Fife, the ambition is to develop a model that could be rolled out more widely across Scotland if proven successful.<\/p>\r\n\r\n
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