Up to a quarter of a million animals are killed every year to sustain the grouse shooting industry, a new book has claimed.
We are fast approaching 12 August: a nondescript midsummer day for some, but for others a crucial day on the calendar. Also known as the Glorious Twelfth, it marks the opening of the shooting season ...
RECENT work on red grouse (Lagopus lagopus scoticus) on a moor at about 300 m altitude in Scotland 1 indicates that the spring breeding stock is largely determined the previous autumn. Each year, cock ...
As the grouse shooting season gets under way, two scientists involved in high-profile studies of hen harriers and red grouse at Langholm Moor in Scotland have called for field trials of a "ceiling" on ...