Sentence examples for shooting industry from inspiring English sources

Why would anyone harm hen harriers if they posed no risk to the grouse shooting industry?

Hen harrier campaigners including Mark Avery were convinced that these were not the authentic concerns of bird-lovers but the increasingly rattled shooting industry: Botham runs a grouse shoot in North Yorkshire; the Mail on Sunday's editor-in-chief, Paul Dacre, also owns a grouse moor in Scotland.

It is an attack on the grouse shooting industry, but not for the usual reasons: Dr Avery is not attacking it for the cruelty of the killing, or suggesting that grouse as a species are threatened; he is not even attacking shooting as a sport.

Naturalist and TV presenter Bill Oddie called on shooting industry leaders to help stamp out the illegal killing of birds of prey as the RSPB's annual Birdcrime report revealed that there were 164 reports of shooting and destruction of birds of prey in 2013.

You Forgot the Birds (YFTB) – a campaign group the Telegraph neglected to inform its readers is funded by the grouse shooting industry – told the paper it was RSPB conservationists' meddling and camera monitoring that led to the failure of the nests.

He points by way of evidence to a recent item posted to The Shooting Wire, an online sport shooting industry Web site.

Just above the list, scrawled in cursive, a greeting reads "Welcome aboard!" The old-school head shot industry seems to be going the way of the flashbulb.

In the end the whole film has depended on this kind of collective outsourcing effort; dealing with the 300 hours of logged footage, for example, was helped along by editors who volunteered through the film industry network Shooting People to take away big chunks of film and edit them down to manageable sorts of sizes.

It would be a good idea, however, if their government didn't keep shooting the industry in the foot.

Also, moving chicks requires concern for the lives of hen harriers: the grouse-shooting industry has something to prove here.

But the first step has to come from the grouse-shooting industry: ie, a demonstrative willingness to abide by the the law.