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[Deker 3,478]

Full of can, maybe, perhaps, ignorance, etc....but if nothing else a good reason NOT to vote Labour!

 

Labour calls for review of grouse shooting on eve of ‘glorious 12th’

© UIG via Getty Images Gamekeepers burn a grouse moor in the Yorkshire Dales. Preparing moors for shooting can also involve draining and drying the land, destroying wildlife.

Labour has called for a formal review into driven grouse shooting to examine its environmental and economic impacts, as well as possible alternatives such as simulated shoots and wildlife tourism.

Under such shoots, beaters drive the birds towards the shooters in an organised way. With a four-month season starting from the “glorious 12th” of August, it is a highly managed commercial process.

The announcement of the Labour review, made by the shadow environment secretary, Sue Hayman, notes that grouse moors cover an area equivalent to Greater London.

© Thomson Reuters A member of a shooting party on Forneth Moor holds the first grouse shot on the opening day of the grouse shooting season, Scotland, Britain Aug 13, 2018. REUTERS/Russell Cheyne

Preparing this land for shooting involves draining and drying the area, which can destroy wildlife and plants, as well as affecting peat moors that would absorb carbon dioxide emissions. The process can involve burning moors, also increasing emissions.

The RSBP charity notes that while the grouse industry brings work and livelihoods to some rural communities, it can also involve the illegal culling of mountain hares and birds of prey such as hen harriers.

© PA Wire/PA Images A member of a shooting party holds grouse on Jervaulx moor, North Yorkshire, as the grouse shooting gets underway. (Photo by Owen Humphreys/PA Images via Getty Images)

Despite these concerns, Labour said, the 10 largest English grouse moors are paid more than £3m a year in farming subsidies.

Hayman said: “The costs of grouse shooting on our environment and wildlife needs to be properly weighed up against the benefit of land owners profiting from shooting parties.

“For too long the Tories have bent the knee to land owners and it’s our environment and our people who pay the price.

© Thomson Reuters A member of a shooting party on Forneth Moor holds the first grouse shot on the opening day of the grouse shooting season, Scotland, Britain Aug 13, 2018. REUTERS/Russell Cheyne

“There are viable alternatives to grouse shooting such as simulated shooting and wildlife tourism. The time has come for a proper review into the practice.”

The drying out of grouse moors has also seen concerns about wildfires, which have become increasingly common on UK moorland in recent years.

Edited August 12, 2019 by Deker

[Stavross 15,489]

They have been banging this drum for a while now, they say they want a formal review, who do they want to carry this out, Natural England ? there’s only two sides to this and they are those who want to go down Mark Avery’s road of rewilding allowing all predators to thrive and wipe out all other birds and mammals and them that understand that we don’t live in a rain forest and as the land has been farmed and managed for centuries it needs to continue and if this is done correctly it give us the chance to harvest some fantastic produce from the land and if people are willing to pay for this helping the local community, all the better, one more thing that bothers me is I think these people seem to think that once the 12th arrives it’s open season, this is complete nonsense, throughout the year grouse counts dictate how many days will be sold, it would make no sense to shoot the arse out of the moor leaving nothing but a wildlife desert, it worries me that people are becoming completely detached from the countryside, spending far to much time listening to the Packham’s, Avery’s and Corbyn’s instead of going out to see how it works for Themselves

[wilbur foxhound 480]

Stavross you are absolutely 100% spot on

[forest of dean redneck 11,588]

Every year same when phesant shooting starts.