Sentences with phrase «grouse moors»

See the Amazon, the US Northwest, Scottish grouse moors, illegal logging in the Congo, Indonesian palm oil plantations, etc..

According to Redpath: «The model suggested that across the grouse moors of England there was room for 70 pairs of hen harriers at relatively low cost for grouse shooting.»

This could be achieved using a simple approach, where when harriers breed at levels that have a significant economic impact on grouse shoots, the excess chicks would be removed from the grouse moors, reared in captivity and then released into the wild elsewhere.

The Scottish government has recently set up an independent group to consider issues around grouse moors, including licensing, and will be commissioning further research next year.

She argued that Letts was set to give a «paean of praise to his beloved editor» and said that Dacre was firmly in the elite camp as he not only owns a grouse moor, but a large arable farm in Sussex «for which he gets huge amounts of EU funding».

There is no other car that can do Grouse Moor and Kensington Palace; McDonald's and Waterside Inn; ferrying children and ferrying Royalty; Polo on Windsor Lawn and cricket on the beach — all with nothing more than a car wash in between.

Based as it is on a cut - down Discovery chassis it weighs slightly more than a grouse moor, which meant it was never going to be exactly dynamic whatever you shoved under the bonnet.

Not exact matches

As the most intensely persecuted bird of prey in the UK, Hen Harriers are under particular threat from being caught up in the crossfire of grouse hunts in upland moors where they feed on red grouse.