LETTER OF THE WEEK
How can we protect Scotland’s grouse?
I attended the recent one-day symposium at which your contributor Patrick Laurie was both authoritative and generally amusing.
Learning things from all speakers, I was impressed by the knowledge in the room and the joined-up, empirically based view of regional habitat and species conservation.
However, I left feeling that the best intentions, scientific study, hands-on measured and proven experience will be insufficient to counter prejudicial regulation.
I was amazed at the way in which walked-up grouse shooting has been ’captured’ in pending Hollyrood regulation, which had primarily been concerned with driven grouse.
This spirit of making the best of a bad situation, improving flawed regulation rather than resisting its
