In the United Kingdom, a gamekeeper is a person who manages an area of countryside to make sure that there is enough game for hunting, or fish for fishing, and acts as guide to those pursuing them.
Gamekeeper (left) with a shooter on a driven grouse shoot in the Highlands, ca. 1922
Controlled burning of heather, one of the countryside management duties of gamekeepers
Game (hunting)
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Game or quarry are wild animals which are hunted for animal products, for recreation, or for trophies. The species of animals hunted as game varies in different parts of the world and by different loc
Gamekeepers in the United Kingdom
…to keeper) is a person who manages an area of countryside (e.g., areas of woodland, moorland, waterway, or farmland) to make sure that there is enough game for hunting, or fish for fishing, and acts as guide to those pursuing them. Typically, a gamekeeper is employed by a landowner or by a country estate…
Common pheasant, widely introduced and hunted as game
A hunter and local guides with his kill, 1970
Big-game hunting
Bobwhite quail, an important North American gamebird