We must make the public care
When I left college, I was full of hope for the future of gamekeeping and my own place within the industry. I’ve become slightly jaded since then, but I do still have hope for the future of the gamekeeper in Britain, though our jobs may end up looking a wee bit different than they do today.
Gamekeeping is at heart an amalgamation of various privately funded conservation practices tailored to achieve a goal — a grouse-rich moorland, for example. I’m not going to say all our practices are fantastic in terms of conservation — it would be disingenuous to do so and we should acknowledge that not everything we do is completely devoid of any fault — but this is the same with every human activity.
“Emotional headlines foster the outrage of the uninformed and willingly hateful”
The current role
