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Scotland’s mountain hare shooting industry exposed in new report

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  Press release from OneKind: OneKind, Scotland’s animal campaigns charity, will release a new report on the persecution of mountain hares in Scotland on Monday 31 July, a day before the open season on mountain hare killing begins. The report titled Mountain hare persecution in Scotland exposes the scale of mountain hare killing for recreational…

Balmoral challenged over Mountain Hare cull

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As a follow-up to last weekend’s story about Mountain Hare culls in the Cairngorms National Park (you may have read it here first) Rob Edwards writes in today’s Glasgow Herald of the role of the Queen’s highland estate.  Mass culls of Mountain Hares have, it seems, been undertaken at Delnadamph – part of the Balmoral…

Help save the Mountain Hare from GWCT

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Mountain Hares rush to leave their worldly possessions to the GWCT – not! Adam Smith from the Game and Wildlife Conservation Trust in Scotland said that it was possible the dead hares in the photo below were “part of a sustainable harvest”.  That’ll be a great relief to these Mountain Hares and they will be…

Mountain Hare leveret caught in a trap

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Original blog on this subject from August 2015. If this image of a Mountain Hare leveret caught in a gamekeeper’s trap upsets you, then please remember that this type of thing is going on in our National Parks wherever driven grouse shooting bumps up against Mountain Hares, and make your views known through this website…

Mountain Hares – ending up in a gamekeeper’s stink pit

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If this image of dead Mountain Hares lying in a gamekeeper’s stink pit upsets you, then please remember that this type of thing is going on in our National Parks wherever driven grouse shooting bumps up against Mountain Hares and make your views known through this website on the future of our National Parks. You…

Protect the Mountain Hare in National Parks

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If this image of a truckload of ‘inconvenient’ Mountain Hares in the Cairngorms National Park upsets you, then please make your views known by signing this e-petition to ban driven grouse shooting. You could also sign this e-petition asking Scottish ministers to protect the Mountain Hare.        

Mountain of mountain hares

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A few lads out and about on the Lecht road a couple of weeks ago. I wonder what they were up to? Take a closer look… The back of that vehicle is full of a mountain of Mountain Hares.  So the voluntary restraint seems to be working as well as we might have expected then?…

Hear hear! Hare hare!

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Ten wildlife and conservation organisations are calling on the Scottish Government to impose a three year ban on all Mountain Hare culling on grouse moors until safeguards are in place to inform sustainable management, and to meet international conservation obligations. The organisations are: Highland Foundation for Wildlife John Muir Trust National Trust for Scotland RSPB…

Guest blog – SWAFH by Rodney Hale

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I was brought up in a family of farmers and bloodsports enthusiasts – that is with the exception of my mother who nearly left my father when he returned home from a shooting trip with his car covered in blood. Had she done so I might not have been sitting here now. I have vivid…