This week's Wildlife Matters Podcast is in the uplands at the start of the Grouse Shooting season on The Inglorious 12th with our feature story Blood on the Moors and there will be this Saturday.

In Wildlife Matters investigations we expose the farce of grouse shooting estates claiming large subsidies for conservation grants as they destroy our native wildlife and landscapes 

In this week's Nature News, we look at the Avian Influenza pandemic devastating the UK wild bird populations and report that the virus has now been identified in mammals.