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00:00Large areas of land have been given awards for the management of a single species for
00:09the very privileged few to benefit, and the benefit they want simply is recreational killing.
00:15The majority of the people that live here and their families have been here for generations.
00:19It wasn't just a job to them, it's a way of life for these people.
00:23The big challenge really is to manage our wildlife resources in a sustainable way.
00:29Our job is to sort of explain to people what Scotland could be like if nature was left
00:34to its own devices.
00:36The habitat that you see around here, the landscape, the animals that inhabit it and
00:39the way it's laid out, it's all the consequence of human choices.
00:42Members of the public are moving away from the idea that it is acceptable to shoot things
00:47for a sporting purpose.
00:49Some people can say a bit nasty things and some think the job my dad does is cruel.
00:55People from the urban cities, they really don't really know the other side of the story
00:59as regards predation and the effect it has on wildlife as well.
01:02If they ban the hunting, the stalking.
01:05It would decimate the country, it would decimate the highlands.
01:07When there's no predator control, predators will take over.
01:11Wildlife's going to disappear.
01:12If you can't make a living, if you can't feed your family, what's the point in doing it?
01:16If you remove people from the landscape, you remove the heart and soul.
01:21Do we have a war going on?
01:23There's social change, there's always social change, there's tension.
01:26I know keepers that's been threatened about it.
01:28Children were threatened with having acid trick in their faces.
01:31The deer has played a big part in this area for people's employment.
01:35They are also a symbol of what nature means.
01:38From the director of Killing the Shepherd.
01:41We've got to get food from somewhere to feed the population.
01:44And it goes hand in hand with what we do here and our philosophy of nature to play.
01:49With the rewilding thing, which is very much in fashion now, we have some pretty big players
01:54who have a totally different belief system from us.
01:57When governments start saying what you can and can't shoot, who can and can't shoot it,
02:02I have great concern.
02:03There is a lot of sort of neo-Marxist ideology attached to the whole land reform issue.
02:09The vested interests that lie behind the high deer populations, they're the villains.
02:14The end landowner, that's what this argument is all about.
02:19The Last Keeper.
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