Here's something that a mate of mine wrote recently with respect to the Government's proposal to abolish the Wildlife Crimes Unit:

"I have just visited a valley on the Yorkshire/Derbyshire border that was shockingly devoid of life. There were plenty of Red Grouse on the tops, but I saw no Mountain Hares (they eat heather - grouse-food), Crows or Goshawks. There were 8 pairs of Goshawks a couple of years ago."

Far too many "land owners" are greedy, selfish, life-hating bastards who would sterilise "their" land of everything that doesn't bring them in a profit. There's no doubt, in our minds, that the hares, crows and goshawks have fallen prey, illegally, to the guns of those charged with maximising the numbers of grouse that rich bastards like to shoot.