Environment, Climate Change and Land Reform Committee

1. Decision on taking business in private: The Committee will decide whether to take items 4 and 5 in private. 2. Biodiversity: Scotland's progress to 2020: The Committee will take evidence from— Adam Smith, Director Scotland, Game and Wildlife Conservation Trust; Duncan Orr-Ewing, Head of Species and Land Management, The Royal Society for the Protection of Birds Scotland; Calum Duncan, Head of Conservation Scotland, Marine Conservation Society; Chris Ellis, Head of Cryptogamic Botany, Royal Botanical Gardens; Catherine Lloyd, Tayside Biodiversity Co-ordinator, Tayside Biodiversity Partnership; Bruce Wilson, Senior Policy Officer, Scottish Wildlife Trust; William McGhee, Forest Policy Group. 3. Petition PE1490: The Committee will consider a petition by Patrick Krause on the control of wild goose numbers.