Quote Originally Posted by noel View Post
If it's grouse moors, sheep farming or forestry, grouse moors do quite well for wildlife (except for raptors of course).
That depends on which species of wildlife you mean. Some species do artificially well due to lack of predation, mainly wading birds that breed on our uplands. That's because foxes, stoats and weasels are destroyed if they stray within the boundary of a grouse moor. Even mountain hares are culled in the name of grouse breeding. Of course all raptors are heavily protected by law so they should be safe from the keepers' traps and guns..?
Grouse shooting has been outed and it is only a matter of time when the rich men will have to seek out their pleasure from some other, more defensible hobby.