DESPITE numbers of grouse being low this year, the conservation work that is carried out on the UK’s moorland landscapes to support them and a whole host of other species will continue.
August 12 marks the start of the grouse season. Eoghan Cameron, chairman of the UK’s largest shooting and conservation organisation, the British Association for Shooting and Conservation (BASC), said the date was also a celebration of the conservation work carried out year-round across the uplands.
Mr Cameron said: “Despite the lower grouse numbers, the dedicated efforts of moor-owners and gamekeepers, and the considerable private investment that goes into supporting biodiversity, wildfire mitigation, restoring habitats and promoting conservation, will carry on.
“Managing our uplands for shooting has far-reaching benefits for conservation and the fact that work carries on even in the absence of a sustainable harvest of grouse is to be celebrated.”
