“Scotland’s moorlands are internationally recognised, and ensuring their sustainable management is of paramount importance. I am very much looking forward to working on this with the other members of the group”

Professor Alison Hester, of our Ecological Sciences group, has been appointed as member of a new independently-led group which aims to ensure grouse moor management practices are not only sustainable but are legally compliant.

The group has been set up in response to research by Scottish Natural Heritage (SNH) that found almost a third of golden eagles being tracked by satellite died in suspicious circumstances and that the majority of cases were where land is intensively managed for driven grouse shooting.

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This article was originally posted by The James Hutton Institute