What is the world coming to, we are all doomed. The influence of the GREEN idiots on the townie politicians will be the end of sustainable rural life in Scotland. I thankfully will be dead in a few years, God help the younger generations.

This is pure propaganda…I’m afraid that gamekeeping is a Victorian occupation, what did nature do before them? Answer…it did what nature does best. This so called ‘land management’ has always been destructive. The wild cat was saved from extinction a hundred years ago because so many gamekeepers died in the trenches. Wildfires happen on ex grouse moor because of Victorian drains, burning causing heather to dominate, total destruction of the mosaic of upland habitats. Do the estates put these hillsides back to the way they would naturally be? No…that would cost them. Who paid for this unashamed propaganda?

It’s interesting that the profession is called”Game Keeping”, what is the game? Shooting our fellow creatures we share this planet with? I am certain there are lots of things keepers do is great. Always a matter of balance.

Odd use of language. “Community Buy Out”. The community appears to care less.

It will bring good balance to the wild lands with a keeper around and the whole eco system will thrive so much better

What did all these ground nesting birds do for millions of years before gamekeepers existed to kill all the predators en masse and burn the heather? 🤔

That was a very informative and thought provoking insight into the Scottish Countryside. I was in a past life twenty five years ago a keen game shooter and Salmon angler and took a great interest in my local estates and the workings of them. I was very friendly with a number of Game Keepers and Bailiffs and regularly toured estates watching wildlife and protecting wildlife from Crows and Foxes. We as a Country need to find a balance in re wilding, Countryside Access and pest control and the powers at be need to listen to the guys on the ground i.e. the Gamekeepers as they are the ones that know how to look after our heritage not politicians or guys in suits based in London. Surely in this example it would have made sense to keep on the Keepers and re task them as Land & Game custodians rather than move them on. One of the Estates I shot over was handled by a Trust as the Land Owner had died and even though good parts of it were deemed a triple SI it was still run as a shoot for guests of the previous owner managed by a local keeper with an abundance of ground nesting birds, raptors and some grouse on a small moor due to effective vermin control. I liked and subscribed and look forward to future content. I felt empathy with that young keeper looking over his former patch being mismanaged by it's new custodians that have decimated it of the birds they were trying to nurture.

In Australia we have a lot of foxes but our biggest problem is wildcats of course they make devastating damage to burl. They are cunning. They are difficult to trap and they take a long period of time to set up so you can actually get all of them that are in a group, we don’t want to miss anyone especially Wildcats so big in Australia down under

Channel owner - pleased explain what is your reason for deleting two of my (reasonable and polite) comments?

V sad, a waste….land.

Well, Langholm demonstrates quite clearly that "community management" basically doesn't work. For this sort of thing to work, you effectively have to duplicate the conditions for running a grouse moor, including the alternative income for when there are too few grouse to harvest by shooting. The stark reality is that Scotland has hundreds and hundreds of square miles of low fertility land that is of next to no use to farmers, and which generates next to no income for anyone who owns only a few hectares of it. The Scottish Government, seemingly unsatisfied with making a great steaming, stinking mess of their cities and towns, would appear to be lining up to do the same with the countryside as well. As a government they're basically pretty crap at their job and show few signs of improvement. Few people would really care about this endless meddling of theirs if they were any good at it and delivered great outcomes, but they're not at all good; very much a case of the inverse Midas effect.

Any piece of land where i live that has no predator control is thriving with predators and little else. The land where i carry out predator control has a vast mix of many species. Rewilding means predators and nothing else. What is best a field full of crows and jackdaws or a field with a mix of waders song birds and game birds. Rewilding gives us the former. Predator protection gives us the latter. Simple as that.

Great video and the first thing that comes to mind again is “Unfortunately it’s not quite that easy” 😤

The restoration of our countryside will be a process, rather than an event. And bringing the former ecological criminals back to the scene of their crime will help no one!

At least when it goes up in flames there won’t be anything living there anyway! Then what they will get a grant to plant trees most likely!!!

The do gooders putting their noses into the Rural Countryside is never a good thing, Gamekeepers handed down skills and experience to protect ground nesting birds in invaluable for all wildlife including predators species, just look at the huge mistake reintroducing Beaver into our Scottish river systems hundreds of miles of glorious tree lined river bank destroyed because Beaver have nil predators in the UK and are breeding like rabbits, University city educated intelligent idiots meddling in the Countryside reintroducing species our past ancestors eradicated for a reason because they were nothing but pest river rats. When our river banks start collapsing because the Beavers have removed the trees the river banks erode, rivers will burst their banks flooding residential homes and business, then watch the outcry. Scot Gov Slaughtering Red Deer to plant Trees in the name of Climate Change taking away more habitat for ground nesting upland birds ext is utter stupidity.

Be good to see a rerun of documentary channel 4 did on Peter Frasers estate called the Firing Line. To me the changes in management that it showed up was happening lit the long fuse to all the trouble theyre talking about today

I dont like the way its being undermanaged now. And i didnt like the way it was keepered in late 80's before the demonstration project. It was a persecution estate for donkeys years lets nobody pretend it wasnt. But i liked it during demonstration project where it was well managed within the law. Had two visits in that time. The balance was righ and legal. But in that time it was said to be economically unviable as they had fewer grouse to shoot than other rival moors. To me that was the painful truth and the main takeaway from the whole saga, not the sad neglect it might be in now. Elephant in the room question, is what must the other moors be doing to achieve economicly viable big bags, that Simon Lester and his capable lads werent doing? No prizes for guessing.

Jamie,s words "I cannot hear anything !", here in Wales that,s how our uplands are, no predator managment leads to a "predator sink". Curlews despite being long lived are circling the drain, and there were more Lapwing on that one field than there are in central Wales. Just hope the Scottish government does not do the same to Scotlands ground nesting birds, but with there track record, one fears the worst.

what about the hen harrier got any of them

The Scottish assembly and the RSPB-what could possibly go wrong ? Two dim-witted fanatical groups with no grip on reality but plenty of other people's money

Used to sit in my car listening to cock grouse calling on those moors, the only time it was quiet then was when a harrier came through. I counted well over 20 blackcock lekking back in 2011 how many are there today i wonder.

This is what you get when you have a spiteful government in charge hellbent on what they see as a class war

Things should be left to the gamekeepers and not to f......g! Idiots

Great Video guys. The reason I am saying that is my attention to this area came about by watching a video in which the nature reserve managers were interviewed, I just got more and more annoyed as I watched it. Even watched it again with my wife as I wanted to make sure I was not being unkind to them. My gripe was it was a sales pitch with no substance, I just got the impression if the interviewer had just asked searching questions that would scratch the surface polish there would would be no knowledge in depth. They didn’t come across as SQEP for the job as they lacked the E. As people trusted to do any job get more experienced and understand their subject matter in depth they are able to discuss a mater looking highlighting there always compromises that have to be made if you are looking at the pros and cons to any action taken. That was not the case with the other video. As Thomas Sowell stated “there are no solutions only trade offs” the problem you have guys is the decisions now a days are made by politicians who think they know what they are talking about after an Sunday afternoon walk along a designated path, unlike my own father that had worked in agriculture his whole life. I for one want to see more content like yours. So please keep up the good work backing up your argument with facts whilst highlighting that compromises have to made so the system as a whole can flourish.

Great video with evidence of how to make a real mess of things when all the promises were "of big things" Oh how this proves the damage done !!!!

Does any one know who's watching this of any statistics that are available for the song bird populations within towns now that any predator control is strictly taboo ?? With what seems an incredible number of cats, foxes, badgers, crows and magpies I now seem to have an incredibly quiet garden. I'm not looking to start an argument but would at least like to have a statistically correct and informed knowledge ion this. This video is absolutely what I expected but towns don't seem to have much published info on what's going on in them. Great piece of informed and balanced film work. Well done.

Langholm moor, the sacrificial lamb to the slaughter. It might have been worth it if the evidence of this eco system disaster was acknowledged but due to this present government and its lackeys it will be replicated throughout every Scottish moor. RIP Scotland’s countryside.

stop killing raptors

Not Just Gamekeepers, very nice, friend

Why are people who have no clue always trying to fix things that are not broken.

Keep these videos coming and stay strong against the towns people who don't understand the countryside.

Great video. So much work gamekeeper’s do goes unnoticed!

I'm afraid the biodiversity of these moorlands has been impoverished by current land management techniques. There is a fraction of what once was or what could be again by keeping things as they are. Vast swathes of land owned and managed a very small amount of landowners for the benefit of certain species and a small percentage of the population who enjoy shooting quarry. Also for the amount of land in use for grouse and deer shooting brings the Scottish economy a very small amount compared to what could be brought in by sympathetic wildlife tourism. The gamekeepers and local communities should be involved in the rewilding of grouse moorland, bringing back apex predators would keep deer numbers down and allow other species to establish and thrive resulting in a more balanced ecosystem. More trees should be planted and link up with existing ancient forests as at Glen Affric. Grouse and deer could still be shot, the deer would be healthier and larger than the small specimens currently being hunted. This would command a premium price tag for a days deer stalking, bringing in more revenue for local communities. gamekeepers would be best placed to run the rewilded estates and carefully managed wildlife safaris would mean more bed and breakfast accommodation would be needed with the knock on effect helping out pubs cafes and hotels etc. Grouse shooting and deer stalking should continue but it will be revitalised by opening the moorlands up to more people. Birds of prey should no longer be threatened but be a part of this new ecosystem. The local communities would secure their own livelihoods and those of future generations. I love Scotland and would love to see these areas become a rich habitat for many more species than at present. Landowner themselves will see the benefits in their local communities thriving and bank balances healthily in the black. If anyone wants to further explore these possibilities then I urge you to read Rebirding by Benedict Macdonald.

🤔 Curlew my favourite bird call, beautiful and haunting ❤ taken off the shooting list in 🤔 1970 something and still in decline ?? I have seen big declines in all birds in my short 57 years 😔 common birds like sparrows and starlings have crashed in numbers and I haven’t seen a Greenfinch for over 10yrs which was a common hedgerow bird. Something is majorly wrong ? easy to blame the shooting world for the decline of species but there’s a bigger picture. None of the 4 shoots I beat on shoot Woodcock , and haven’t done for many years now there’s Woodcock on all the shoots I go on , but the keepers and land owners like to see them about . Good example of shooting and Conservation I think 👍

Great work that you do! I hope that everything works out for you. Nice video!

...but, how? Did I miss what exactly it is that threatens the "gamekeeper's way of life" and Scotland's rural communities, or did you not mention it? What's your solution?

Video shows the beauty of the landscape, and its people, something that means something to everyone. BUT it would be good if the video explained or linked to something to explain exactly how gamekeepers are supposedly having a positive impact on biodiversity, because I struggle to understand how they are best placed to do this, when the money is ultimately driven by people's desire to hunt and shoot large numbers of animals.

This is hilarious 😂😂

Unfortunately we are led by witless idiots now, it seems to be the ongoing trend.

I think to gain the support of the non sporting public, there has to be a stop to Raptor persecution, in Scotland and in England and Wales, it undoes the excellent work that gamekeepers do. There has to be a modicum of modernisation if it is to survive and it must survive, looking after the moors. I'm an Angler, Shooter and former Falconer, I do have some understanding of the work that is done and needs to be done to maintain a balance in nature, man has changed nature and man is needed to maintain what we have now, farmers, keepers and ghillies all add to the natural order, but need to be aware it's the 21st century.

When are you going to realize, even if your Scottish, Welsh or English all governments are out to ruin the country side and it's way of life, they do not care about us and it's wild life, trees, wind farms and solar panels is all they want in the country side.

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Bloody murderers

what about the illegal trapping and shooting of birds of prey? You need to get your house in order before you can start bragging about how wonderful your way of life is.

Just watching this again, Jimmy gibb, you said the fire had been burning for a whole week before you helped?

You never mentioned all the other people that helped

Your end comments....has no one from RSPB ever helped with you personally at shuggly estate?

No comments....what a suprise! True th? ......😕

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