A typically thoughtful post on the blog of RSPB’s Conservation Director Mark Avery looking at the how Hen Harriers are unarguably suffering at the hands of gamekeepers employed by certain members of the grouse-moor-owning anti-conservationists in the Countryside Alliance. Mark points to a number of studies and concludes pointedly that “The thing that has changed since the science was carried out is that there are now even fewer hen harriers on grouse moors – the study in Scotland probably couldn’t be done these days there are too few birds – and hen harriers have recovered somewhat in the places where there isn’t grouse shooting.”
Well worth reading: Harried to Death
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