to their own will to satisfy notjust their need for food, but also their desire for recreation and entertainment. in an age of climate crisis, can the grouse moors survive? estate managers say their land is a carbon sink where the peatland, if managed properly, locks huge quantities of carbon in the ground. this idea that nothing else happens apart from grouse shooting on grouse moors is just not true. you know, what you see is a balanced approach to managing the landscape, so that you can give the best possible chance for a wild bird to thrive, and it is only the surplus which are shot. and country sports, yes, it s a pleasure in the same way that golf and hill walking and other things which happen in scotland and are celebrated are. people come from all over the world because scotland has the best grouse shooting globally
which are shot, and country sports, yes, it s a pleasure in the same way that golf and hill walking and other things which happen in scotland are celebrated. you know, people come from all over the world because scotland has the best grouse shooting globally and that is something we should celebrate. but the rewilders believe they are turning the page on the victorian legacy and redefining scottish land use for the climate age. there are several big renature projects over hundreds of thousands of acres, mostly driven by the private passions of billionaire landowners, sometimes called the green lairds. we know these landscapes are socially unjust because of the concentration of land ownership, the land inequality, so i see a lot of the landlord driven, the green laird driven, restoration and rewilding projects as only really dealing with a small part of the problem in these landscapes. i want to see environmental
to bloodsport estates. this seems to me to be a historical artefact that bears witness to a period when human beings really thought they could bend nature to their own will to satisfy not just their need for food but also their desire for recreation and entertainment. in an age of climate crisis, can the grouse moors survive? estate managers say their land is a carbon sink where the peatland, if managed properly, locks huge quantities of carbon in the ground. this idea that nothing else happens apart from grouse shooting on grouse moors is just not true. you know, what you see is a balanced approach to managing the landscape so that you can give the best possible chance for a wild bird to thrive, and it is only the surplus which are shot. and country sports, yes, it s a pleasure in the same way that golf and hill walking and other things which happen
what i do find particularly thrilling now is when i m going up to people on the hill to tell them what i m doing, the fundraising. you ve already donated? i can t ask you to do it again! and they say, oh, its nick! it s nick! i ve been longing to meet you. he is often asked what motivates him to climb out mountain after mountain. if you regard hill walking as a sport like football, whereas by definition, when you play football, half the time you going to lose. and i never lose. so for any other 80 year olds or 70 year olds who feel they re on the wane, no, just keep going. keep going, keep going. and you will get there. he is hoping to scale his last summit nextjuly. and as for his next challenge?
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