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Scotland’s grouse shooting estates are waging a war on wildlife that must stop – Robbie Marsland
The Scottish Government now has the chance to stop the killings of vast numbers of animals – from foxes, stoats and mountain hares to hedgehogs and thrushes – carried out by the...
Over 15 months, a professional surveyor spent 128 days walking 404 square kilometres of land on seven Scottish shooting estates.
- The Scotsman
As he walked, he counted, photographed and recorded the GPS position of traps and snares that were deployed to kill foxes, stoats and weasels.
The data from the survey was sent to a recently retired professor of environmental science at Bristol University for…