Mountain Hares are native to Britain and Ireland, unlike Brown Hares, so we should look after them. This very recent paper; … which is public access has an arresting title and the text looks pretty convincing to me. Grouse moors not great for Mountain Hares in the Peak District. Read the paper, look at the…
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Mountain Hares to be moved to Langholm by friendly gamekeepers?
The Scottish Gamekeepers Association say they plan to talk to the Langholm Initiative about returning Mountain Hares back to Langholm. The suggestion that this would involve up to 25,000 animals a year, the number that have been culled in recent years (2015 figure), are certainly exagerrated – but this ‘proposal’ looks more like a new…
I’m looking to you for help
Over 21,000 people have signed a petition supporting better protection for Mountain Hares. The Scottish Parliament will vote on the amendment tabled by Alison Johnstone MSP this afternoon/evening. Please add your signature to increase the pressure for change.
Tim Melling – Mountain Hare
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Tim writes: the Mountain Hares in the Peak District were introduced from Scotland during the Nineteenth Century by the shooting fraternity after some diversity of things to kill. Ironically the gamekeepers are trying to get rid of them as unnecessary vectors of ticks that can pass the disease louping ill on to grouse. In Scotland…
Why I wrote The Blue Hare – by Hugh Webster
After his site was hit with technical problems on the same day my book was reviewed there, Mark kindly offered me the option to post a guest blog on how I came to write the book. The idea to write The Blue Hare came to me in October 2016 while I was working at a…
Monday book review – The Blue Hare by Hugh Webster
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Reviewed by Ian Carter This book is aimed, I imagine, primarily at older children, perhaps in their early teens or a little younger for more advanced readers. That being so, when asked to read it I thought I’d have a look at a chapter or two to get a flavour of the writing and write…
Mountain Hares close to extinction on NE Scotland grouse moors
That paper on Mountain Hares summed up by its title, abstract and in two graphs: Title: ‘Seven decades of mountain hare counts show severe declines where high-yield recreational game bird hunting is practised‘ by Adam Watson and Jeremy Wilson, published in Journal of Applied Ecology. Abstract Recreational hunting is widespread and can benefit nature conservation…
Mountain hares (not) on Scottish grouse moors
Do you remember this video (above) about the killing of Mountain Hares on grouse moors? And this photo of a Mountain Hare leveret caught in a trap … …and this one of a truck load of dead Mountain Hares on a Scottish grouse moor… Today the RSPB released the following press release of…
Hare today, goner tomorrow!
The Game and Wildlife Conservation Trust is helping with a survey of Mountain Hares. They’ve got the science to tackle a job like this. To see a shocking video of Mountain Hare ‘management’ see here.
Update on Mountain Hare hunting
It’s been a busy day today: OneKind’s Mountain Hare report: I found this report really interesting. I certainly hadn’t realised that Mountain Hare shooting was a business as well as a peculiarly ill-judged form of ‘pest’ control. A number of businesses advertising recreational mountain hare killing on their websites were approached by OneKind for…