Dante’s Inferno, Saddleworth Moor set ablaze: Help us ban driven grouse shooting.

Dante’s Inferno Saddleworth Moor ablaze. Do these images represent intensive habitat management?

Ban driven grouse shooting Grouse shooting for ‘sport’ depends on intensive habitat management which increases flood risk and greenhouse gas emissions, relies on killing Foxes, Stoats, Mountain Hares etc in large numbers and […]

April 22nd, 2016 | Category: ban driven grouse shooting | 18 comments - (Comments are closed)

New paper vindicates VCF methods – release of captive-bred bearded vultures the best method to restore populations

The Vulture Conservation Foundation has been releasing captive-bred young bearded vultures in the Alps (since 1986) – and more recently in Andalusia (since 2006) and Grands-Causses/Massif Central (since 2010), with the aim to re-establish the species across European mountain ranges where it had disappeared. The bearded vulture is now firmly established in the […]

April 22nd, 2016 | Category: bearded Vulture, Vulture Conservation Foundation | Comments are closed