![Pinterest](https://pinterest.com/pin/create/button/?url=https://uknews.evprotec.com/cochranes-scotland-sturgeons-latest-class-war-will-proceed-largely-unchallenged/&media=https://uknews.evprotec.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/TELEMMGLPICT000255439281_trans_NvBQzQNjv4BqpVlberWd9EgFPZtcLiMQf0Rf_Wk3V23H2268P_XkPxc.jpeg&description=Why is Nicola Sturgeon's government so interested in owning shooting estates in Scotland? That's the question land managers and all those living in rural parts of the country are asking, since the SNP and their right-on coalition partners in the Scottish Greens are totally opposed to what they term "blood sports". It's just that they've worked out a better way of banning what others call "country sports"... by actually cancelling shooting and stalking by turning as many estates as they can into conifer plantations. The interest has been sparked by what is almost a stampede by quango, Forestry and Land Scotland (FLS), the quango which is wholly owned by the Scottish Government and answerable only to Sturgeon and her ministers. This week my colleague Daniel Sanderson told Telegraph readers of how FLS was nearing completion of the purchase of a 16,500 acre shooting estate in North Angus, on the edge of the Cairngorm National Park, in a secret deal said to be worth £25 million. But it has now emerged that the quango, which is Scotland's biggest landowner, with almost 160,000 acres, may be on the verge of other multi-million pound land-grabs as it is said to have been out-bid in secret auctions for four other massive Scottish estates, whose main uses have been grouse shooting, deer stalking and fishing. Clear fishing and shooting will be banned at Glenprosen However, it is clear from their actions in buying the Glenprosen estate - where five people have lost their jobs - that all shooting and fishing will be ultimately banned wherever FLS are successful in buying land. Instead, all the property bought by FLS looks like being turned over to woodland - you know those dreadful acres and acres of serried rows of quick growing conifers which will be planted and then sold on to major business concerns and investment houses to offset carbon emissions, signalling a shift away from traditional activities such as farming and shooting. In the Glenprosen case, the FLS said that buyi){kind=link}
The Scottish Government has quietly struck a £25m sporting estate deal – despite its policy of banning secret sales
Why is Nicola Sturgeon’s government so interested in owning shooting estates in Scotland? That’s the question land managers and all those living in rural parts of the country are asking, since the SNP and their right-on coalition partners in the Scottish Greens are totally opposed to what they term “blood sports”.
It’s just that they’ve worked out a better way of banning what others call “country sports”… by actually cancelling shooting and stalking by turning as many estates as they can into conifer plantations.
The interest has been sparked by what is almost a stampede by quango, Forestry and Land Scotland (FLS), the quango which is wholly owned by the Scottish Government and answerable only to Sturgeon and her ministers.
This week my colleague Daniel Sanderson told Telegraph readers of how FLS was nearing completion of the purchase of a 16,500 acre shooting estate in North Angus, on the edge of the Cairngorm National Park, in a secret deal said to be worth £25 million.