2020

Those who use the start of the grouse season as another excuse to call for an end to driven shooting have yet to suggest an alternative way of paying for the management of our precious moorland.

This article outlines the principles for the safe operation of game shoots in England through reference to relevant Government guidance and regulation. It has been produced to assist those managing game shoots and reduce the risk posed by COVID-19.

James Mawle is passionate about the red-listed black grouse. In 1998 there were only 773 males left in England, but thanks to a conservation project involving land managers on a landscape-scale and joint-led by the Game & Wildlife Conservation Trust, the decline was reversed.