Authorities must be vigilant in enforcing new wildlife protections during this year’s shooting season
AUTHORITIES must be vigilant in enforcing new wildlife protections during this year’s grouse-shooting season, the Scottish Greens warned today.
Rural affairs spokeswoman Ariane Burgess spoke ahead of the first “Glorious Twelfth,” as the start of the season is known to hunters, since the introduction of the Wildlife Management and Muirburn Act in April.
This legislation introduced a number of key protections, including a ban on the uncontrolled burning of old vegetation on Scottish uplands, legal protections for birds of prey and a licensing system for grouse-shooting.
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