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Public health

Mass outdoor medication

October 12, 2018 by

To try to encourage a consistently high population density of grouse available to kill, one of the intensification methods adopted since the 1980s has been the use of outdoor medication on a massive scale to reduce the incidence of parasitic worm and thus ‘override’ the red grouse’s natural and cyclical ‘boom and bust’ population crashes.

Tagged With: medicated grit, Public health

Environmental Damage

September 12, 2018 by

Muir burn

Scotland’s vital peat reserves are under constant threat from the damage caused by increasingly intensive muir burning on Scotland’s grouse moors adding to the risk of climate chaos in the future.

Tagged With: Land use, Public health

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