Following debate in the Scottish Parliament, the mass shooting of mountain hares is to be made illegal.
During a debate on the Animals and Wildlife Bill, the Scottish Rural Affairs Minister accepted an amendment from the Scottish Green Party making it an offence to kill mountain hares without a licence.
The Minister suggested, however, that it may take time to change the rules.
Campaigners have welcomed the move but landowners are said to be extremely disappointed at the curbs.
HARE
Stillness is her best defence.
So she becomes
a russet stone,
a dark tussock,
a clod of earth, upturned,
perhaps merely a shadow,
there, by a dry-stone wall
on hostile, open ground.
No shiver of wind
disturbs her tawny fur.
She sits, unbreathing,
stiff as an idol.
Only her eyes, bead bright
in a fine-boned head, travel
like planets.
With leather-gaitered boots,
mountainous shape,
tobacco reek,
and slow-departing tread,
danger passes.
Great stuff... and emerging (?) from v judicious context x
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