The plucky, unsung conservation heroes
“Where foxes are concerned, no keeper could do their job without a terrier”
The landscape of Britain is unique in the splendour of its diversity, from mountain and heather moors to wooded lowlands and coastal marshes, home to a vast array of wildlife. Two-thirds of all rural land in the UK is keepered and the natural beauty of the countryside is maintained by shooting estates spending more than £250m annually on conservation. This massive yearly expenditure is of incalculable benefit to the environment and provides safe habitat, food, shelter, roosting and nesting sites to a multitude of little farm and woodland songbirds. The ground nesters of heath, fen and marshes and the summer visitors who
