What's really baffling about this report are the quotations from the CLA. Was their spokesman mis-quoted, drunk, or being disengenuous in order to promote the case for grants?
Mis-quotation would be par for the course for the BBC; being drunk is no crime, but most of us would know better than to talk to reporters when three sheets to the wind; but it would surely be an invidious strategy in any case deliberately to misrepresent the truth, and especially here, since the case for the benefits for peat conservation that proper moorland management for grouse provides is a very strong one, especially if properly understood and represented - which, of course, is precisely what the CLA should be doing.
As it stands, however, the BBC report is totally a**e-about-face. Staggering!