Grouse shooting: half a million reasons why time’s up for this appalling Victorian ‘sport’ | Mark Avery
by Mark Avery from on (#2Z3VV)
Some 500,000 birds will have been shot by the end of another inglorious season as a select few continue to trample on the interests of the rest of us
After 150 years of being treated as a quaint rural pastime, grouse shooting is now under the microscope - unless it reforms it is doomed, and it may drag other country sports down with it.
On Saturday, the start of the grouse shooting season, the social media hashtag #inglorious12th was trending, and a social media message, "I want to see an end to raptor persecution in the uplands. Criminal activity needs to be stopped", set up by 15-year-old birdwatcher and conservation campaigner Findlay Wilde, was sent to more than 11 million people.
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