Harry Huyton, Director of One Kind, says:
‘Predator control, prescribed burning, disease control… these professional-sounding terms are used to give credibility to intensive grouse moor management and to obfuscate the grim reality: legal and illegal killing of native wildlife, landscape-scale burning, and mass-medication as though the grouse were being intensively farmed.
For the past two years OneKind has worked to expose and end the persecution of mountain hares on Scotland’s grouse moors. Like illegal raptor persecution, the widespread killing of mountain hares in an attempt to reduce the prevalence of disease in red grouse is illustrative of the principle that informs intensive grouse moor management: grouse good, competing wildlife bad. It’s time to end the grip of this brutal dogma on our uplands and ban driven grouse shooting for good.’
To join Harry Huyton, please sign Gavin Gamble’s e-petition which calls for a ban on driven grouse shooting.
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Disgusted by the amount of animal abuse taking place in my beautiful country, Scotland. Knew nothing about the rearing and shooting by ‘guests’ of wild mountain goats in the hills outside Edinburgh until recently. Any animal be it mammal or bird, deserves the right to live its life without persecution, and to breed birds specifically for ‘sport’ is appalling. This cruelty in today’s world needs to be halted and I have now become a member of the League Against Cruel Sports which looks after the welfare of all types of wildlife, and I sign every Petition.