Nowt wrong with huntin', shootin' and fishin' by individuals for food, as opposed to sport. But the shooting estates used for sport by the royals and their hangers-on are an ecological disaster. Thousands upon thousands of acres of what should beautiful upland turned into a near-monoculture, burned off at intervals just to suit a single species of bird, destroying most of the other wildlife. The illegal shooting and poisoning of rare top predators that were there a long time before the shooters, the beaters and the grouse. Drastically reducing the moorlands' ability to store carbon and water, in fact turning them into large-scale carbon-emitters. The icing on the cake is that for much of the year, if not all of it, the plebs have to be kept off this stolen land. On one occasion in upper Teesdale, shots were fired over my head when I'd inadvertently strayed on to the margin of a shooting estate. It's eco-vandalism at its worst and it makes that conspicuous eco-warrior Prince Charles into a complete hypocrite.