I often find myself noting the local conservation industry's peculiar relationship with the truth. But fallible as they are they are minor offenders compared to the wealthy countryside lobby represented by the shooting industry. Is it something to do with owning land? Can it be the possession of large tracts of countryside affects the brain to the extent it makes the landowners think that the wider public will believe anything they say? The claims made by the shooters that managing moors for grouse benefits conservation are more barmy than the average party political manifesto. But then the calculation must be that most people never visit them so will believe any case that's plausibly presented. And that's why they cultivate the media as they do, from the humble press release to sophisticated wining and dining of newspaper proprietors.
Some letters on the subject.
https://www.theguardian.com/news/2016/aug/13/conservation-raptors-landowners-shooting
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