Rumour has it, Professor Alan Werritty has submitted his long-awaited review on grouse moor management to the Scottish Government, two and a half years after it was first announced by Environment Cabinet Secretary Roseanna Cunningham following the devastating findings of the golden eagle satellite tag review, which showed the extent and scale of ongoing golden eagle persecution on some driven grouse moors.
To be fair, Professor Werritty wasn’t actually commissioned until two years ago in November 2017. Nevertheless, the report is still six months overdue, partly due to ill-health (fair enough) but partly due to….well, we don’t know.
There hasn’t been any official announcement about the submission of Professor Werritty’s Review, and thus no indication of when the Scottish Government might publish it, nor when it might respond to the report’s recommendations.
Raptor Persecution UK 
and the Big Question is..will our government continue to run away from the power of the landowners/shooters?
a lot of shooters are not that well off, a lot are but a lot are not. Learned today that on a 2 days beaters/ keepers shoot on a place in Cumbria, at the end of January a few years ago 44 Woodcock were shot, to me that’s bloody disgraceful, the man that told me had been there also admitted that he used to sell fox cubs to Hunts down South , needs his arse kicked.
Most of the shooters I know are a mix of the good the bad and the ugly, . Sad that Woodcock fly all the way from Russia, Norway, Sweden etc to be killed in big numbers in Britain, theres not much meat on them, take them and Snipe off the quarry list .
“a lot of shooters are not that well off” – utterly irrelevant.
Aye….poor shooters v poor birds….very different types of poverty- not equal and not necessary.
All governments are held at bay by the big landowners and bankers who run the respective countries and this leaves thengovernments powerless to do anything.
I agree that woodcock be protected. All waders should be protected and pigeons should be classed as game so at least they are safe on Sundays.