Sentence examples for shooting interests from inspiring English sources

However, some experts believe the culling was also partly to protect grouse shooting interests.

The original said grouse shooting interests had turned to Centaurs Communications, when it should have said Abzed.

Calling the move shameful, Eduardo Gonçalves, chief executive of the League Against Cruel Sports, said: "Authorising this protected raptor to be killed purely to boost the profits of private shooting interests sets a very dangerous precedent.

And while we're on the subject of the clash between shooting interests and natural predators, I said in this column last week, while writing about the newly published Bird Atlas of Britain and Ireland, that the buzzard and the raven have spread back over Eastern England because "persecution has ended".

Packham is measured in response: "My hypothesis, and that's all it is, is that You Forgot the Birds is a concerted attempt by shooting interests to manipulate government policy processes to try and get their demands met on grouse shooting by neutralising the RSPB and people like myself who side with them.

The Game and Wildlife Conservation Trust's attitude is typical of the views that have long prevailed amongst shooting interests: all too often estate owners would rather cut their own throats than tolerate the presence of predators, even when those predators are protecting them from massive problems, like grey squirrels or (due to the absence of lynx) exploding roe and sika deer populations.

Google search data reveals that after a mass shooting, interest in "gun control" usually spikes.

Google Trends data showed on Monday that despite a sharp spike in searches for "gun control" following the mass shooting, interest has essentially petered out. .

Google Trends data showed on Monday that despite a sharp spike in searches for "gun control" following the mass shooting, interest has essentially petered out.

Conservation organisations and grouse-shooting interests are now utterly at loggerheads.

The fate of the hen harrier in the English uplands has been of serious concern following years of illegal persecution by gamekeepers who have used poisoned bait to protect the grouse-shooting interests of landowners.