Study highlights grouse benefits

A new study has concluded that grouse shooting is an essential part of sustainable management of the country’s uplands.

The study was conducted by academics from the Institute for Social Innovation and Impact at the University of Northampton and in turn overseen by Professor James

Crabbe of Wolfson College, Oxford. It concluded that, contrary to some critical assertions, grouse shooting was not economically insignificant and bad for people and the environment, and that no other regimes had been shown to be as effective for moorland management.