No Red Grouse to Shoot at on Inglorious 12th? Grouse Moor Owners Releasing Non-Native Red-Legged Partridge as Alternative Quarry
{No Red Grouse to Shoot – Ending Grouse shooting and reforming upland farming practices has so much environmental benefit that it is a no brainer to end the so called sport and end persecution of raptors too – Â Earth and Leaf editorial}
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What if there are no Red Grouse to Shoot
No red grouse to shoot at on Inglorious 12th? Grouse moor owners releasing non-native red-legged partridge as alternative quarry.
Today marks the opening of the red grouse shooting season (the Inglorious 12th) and the media is full of ‘woe is us’ stories from the grouse shooting industry claiming that the lack of grouse available to shoot this year (largely down to climate breakdown) will result in the annihilation of the rural economy. (It won’t).
Strangely, the grouse shooting industry is keeping very quiet about the jolly good wheeze it’s got up its sleeve to ensure that the bloodsports enthusiasts will still have something to get their kicks from killing – they’re using the red-legged partridge (RLP) as an alternative quarry to red grouse – although they won’t be able to kill them until the RLP shooting season opens on 1st September.
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Iain Dunn
Founder of Earth and Leaf Community Interest Company. Lifelong career as a livestock farming expert backed by an education in agricultural sciences and economics. Now a conservationist, researcher and sustainability campaigner.