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Q: How does a snare work?A: A loop of wire is set on a support (‘tealer’) at the appropriate height in a suitable place – for example in a ‘tramline’ made by tractors in an arable crop, which foxes may travel along. The head of the fox goes through the snare loop, which draws up to a fixed minimu...
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Key points
Burning vegetation on UK moorlands is part of routine management for red grouse, but its contribution to peatland degradation is widely debated.
In a moor managed for grouse, areas that had been burned between the winters of 2008/09 and 2014/15 were revisited in 2019 to look at how th...
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About The Werritty Review
Published on Thursday 19 December 2019, The Werritty Review is the first of its kind in Scotland, and was commissioned on the back of a study by Scottish Natural Heritage (SNH).
The review looks at the effects of grouse moor management on scottish wildlife and countrysid...
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