Close Scottish grouse moors to help climate, report urges

Intensively managed estates have created treeless landscapes with few animals and plants

Conservation groups have called for Scotland's grouse moors to be closed down and replaced by woodland to protect the country from the impacts of the climate emergency.

A report for Revive, a coalition of environmental and animal rights groups, has found grouse moors cause significant ecological damage by burning heather, allowing heavy grazing by deer and sheep, and using intensive predator control.