2019

Vital conservation work must swiftly restart before the only place we can hear the call of the curlew is on the radio.

Current farming policy may be imperfect but it has not stopped many committed farmers, from showing that abundant wildlife and commercial farming can go together.

They support eighteen species of European or global importance, for example. Robbie Marsland, of the League Against Cruel Sports, and his friends at Revive, may not be fans of grouse shooting but suggesting we should neglect this precious heather habitat, in the name of ‘social justice’, is a bit extreme.

Isla Hodgson is absolutely right to say that efforts to resolve the conflict between hen harriers and grouse moors have so far focused on two areas: diversionary feeding and legislation.