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Gamekeepers
A gamekeeper is a person who manages an area of countryside to make sure there is enough game for shooting, or fish for angling, and who actively manages areas of woodland, moorland, waterway or farmland for the benefit of game birds, deer, fish and wildlife in general.
A gamekeeper is usually employed by a landowner, and often in the United Kingdom by a country estate, to prevent poaching, to rear and release game birds such as common pheasants and French partridge, eradicate pests, encourage and manage wild red grouse, and to control predators such as weasels, to manage habitats to suit game, and to monitor the health of the game.
The earliest gamekeepers were by Royal appointment – as are those on the Queen’s rural estates today. As early as in Saxon times they were employed to protect the deer and the wild boar from poachers, acting as a police force of the forest, so that the monarch and his friends might hunt the quarry themselves.
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Sources, references and Further Reading
- Gamekeeprs Wiki
- National Careers - gamekeeper
- Shooting UK
- Admired, feared, valued Gamepeepers - Western Morning news
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