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GLORIOUS TWELFTH USHERS IN A NEW ERA FOR LICENCED GROUSE SHOOTING IN SCOTLAND
A new era for grouse moor management began today as the Glorious Twelfth, the official start of the season, got underway with a new licensing scheme imposed in Scotland. Following legislation passed by the Scottish Parliament in March, moors now need to apply for a licence to shoot grouse and comply with a raft of
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WINNERS OF FIRST SCOTTISH GAME AWARDS ANNOUNCED
The outstanding contribution of sporting estates, game dealers, gamekeepers and ghillies in Scotland has been marked at the inaugural Scottish Game Awards. At the Scottish Game Fair at Scone, a host of award winners and commendations were announced across four highly competitive categories. The newly crowned winners are: Game Champion of the Year (sponsored by
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MOOR PLEASE - OVER 2,400 CHILDREN & ADULTS JOIN MOORLAND EDUCATION SESSIONS
Scotland’s Regional Moorland Groups have provided outdoor education for a total of 2,413 children and adults up and down the country this year, to showcase the wealth of wildlife thriving on Scottish estates and to help young people discover the rural career pathways open to them. Topics such as upland sheep farming, habitat conservation, peatland
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GAME FOR GIVING IN GRAMPIAN AND TAYSIDE
Scotland’s moorland groups, local butchers and sporting estates in Grampian and Tayside have joined forces to bring delicious hot dinners to local residents and community groups. Rural estates in Tayside have donated pheasant and grouse to the award-winning Game for Giving initiative, originally set up in 2016, which has fed over 2,500 families in
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SCOTTISH RURAL BUSINESSES DEPEND ON GROUSE SHOOTING SEASON
This year’s grouse season officially closed on December 10th and estates across the country are reporting a more favourable season than had been initially predicted and, as a result, rural businesses welcomed a better than expected economic boost. Many domestic as well as international parties travelled to Scotland to enjoy the iconic sport and make
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RURAL COMMUNITIES SPEAK UP AT SCOTTISH PARLIAMENT EVENT - JOBS, FOOD AND YEAR-ROUND CONSERVATION HIGHLIGHTED
Scotland’s regional moorland groups hosted an event at the Scottish Parliament on Thursday, to outline the many benefits of the work undertaken by Scottish estates and upland communities. MSP’s including Maurice Golden, Murdo Fraser, Edward Mountain, Kate Forbes, Rhoda Grant, Donald Cameron and Rachael Hamilton were updated on the activities of the six groups, from
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400 RURAL BUSINESSES VOICE OPPOSITION TO GROUSE SHOOTING LICENSING PLANS
Nearly 400 businesses have joined together to urge the Scottish Government to avoid a ‘disastrous and irreversible’ outcome for rural Scotland from its plans to licence grouse shooting. Butchers, hotels, tradespeople, farms and upland estates are amongst those to have written to Environment Minister, Gillan Martin MSP, seeking changes to be made to the Wildlife
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GLORIOUS TWELFTH STARTS WITH A BANG ACROSS SCOTLAND
The official start of the grouse season, the Glorious Twelfth , began in Scotland today, with sporting estates hoping for a good season following the difficult years of the pandemic and hot weather during 2021 and 2022. A grouse day is considered to be the pinnacle of country sports activity, attracting participants from all over
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GLORIOUS TWELFTH AT RISK FROM ‘EXCESSIVE’ LEGISLATION
The official start of the grouse season, the Glorious Twelfth , begins tomorrow, with shooting parties taking to the moors across Scotland from the Lammermuirs in the south to the Dornoch Firth in the north. The game and country sports sector is worth over £350m per year to the Scottish economy. Over 11,000 full time
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GROUSE MOOR MANAGEMENT OFFERS 'MOST SUSTAINABLE OPTION FOR TACKLING CLIMATE CHANGE AND BIODIVERSITY LOSS', ACCORDING TO NEW REPORT
A new report concludes that, based on International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) environmental, social and economic definitions, moorland managed for grouse shooting provides greater overall benefits than any alternative use. Written by Professor Simon Denny, formerly of the University of Northampton, and reviewed by Professor James Crabbe from the University of Oxford, the new report titled ‘Sustainable driven
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