Quelle surprise! The Lochindorb Estate hare snare trial was adjourned yesterday for deliberations. It will continue in mid-August (coincidentally, after the opening of the grouse shooting season).
Conveniently, the timing of the latest adjournment also coincides with the opening of the game fair at Moy Estate today. Anybody remember the Moy Estate? See here for a reminder. How surprising to see prominent members of the game-shooting lobby attending an event at this venue, along with SNH Chairman Andrew Thin (see here and here). Actually, it’s not a surprise at all. Carry on regardless.
Raptor Persecution UK 
Not surprised that Andrew Thin is there. He was the convenor of ‘The Cairngorms National Park’ for many years, and under his leadership it has now become known as ‘The Cairngorms National Development Park’! It will be the first National Park in the world to have a brand new town built in it, at Rothiemurchus Estate, and this under the ownership of an ex RSPB president.
Andrew Thin has been the single most disasterous thing to happen conservation in Scotland for ……well… since before the first conservation laws in 1949. And the good news for the SGA, the windfarmers and all developers out to destroy what little we have left…..his tenure has just been EXTENDED by two years!