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Community buyout of 5,200 acres of southern Scotland completed

Community buyout of 5,200 acres of southern Scotland completed
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New rules in Scotland make it illegal to kill a mountain hare without a licence

Mountain hare / Alpine hare / snow hare (Lepus timidus) in white winter pelage in the Cairngorms National Park, Scottish Highlands. Photo by: Arterra/Universal Images Group via Getty Image PROTECTIONS for mountain hares have come into force from today, in what campaigners are calling National Mountain Hare Day. The new regulations mean that it is illegal to intentionally kill, injure or take mountain hares without a licence. They were passed after pressure from Scottish Green MSP Alison Johnstone to accept the licensing as part of the new wildlife legislation. Johnstone said: “Today is an important moment for all those who campaigned for years to end the indiscriminate mass slaughter of mountain hares on Scotland’s grouse moors. These new protections come as a direct result of my amendment to wildlife laws last year, which forced the Government to act after years of delay.

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Plan to return extinct mountain hares to their former Scottish moorland home

A NEW plan has been hatched to return the iconic mountain hare to its former Scottish moorland home. Ecologists say numbers have been in decline since the 1950s with Scottish government figures suggesting about 26,000 hares are killed every year. Now gamekeepers are to have talks with a group behind the Langholm community buy-out with a plan to reintroduce hares to the moor to kick-start a recovery. Buccleuch Estates said in November that it would be selling just over 2,000 hectares (about 5,000 acres) of Langholm Moor for £3.8m to the local community, which plans to create a leading new nature reserve and community regeneration project.

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