The project was launched on 20 September 2007 and work at Langholm began in early 2008. Progress will be formally reviewed every three years.

Press releases

• 2 November 2011. Ministerial visit

• 21 September 2011. Out of season muirburn licence

• 20 July 2011. Langholm project - Review of the first three years

• 9 October 2008. Langholm project - one year on

• 25 March 2008. Head Gamekeeper Appointed

• 20 September 2007. Project launch in Edinburgh

Harrier dispersal track- October 2011

The correct map showing the locations of Langholm origin harriers on 18 October 2011 is now available on the Raptors page.

Harrier Tagging Programme - September 2011

Links to maps showing the recent locations and past movements of the satellite tagged harriers from Langholm moor are now available on the raptor page.

Website update - September 2011

Links to videos on diversionary feeding and red grouse have been added on the relevant pages. The work undertaken by the management team on habitat has been updated on the gamekeeping page. There are now brief notes on the other wildlife page about goats and badgers.

July Grouse Counts 2011

In line with the red grouse counts from many parts of Scotland, this year's summer densities of grouse at Langholm have fallen. With the Langholm area being 10-15 days wetter than average in May, and 6-10 days wetter in June, according to the Met Office, this is perhaps no great surprise. But this year's average brood size of 2 chicks for each hen at Langholm is unlikely to be weather alone when the average Scottish red grouse brood was 3.5 chicks per hen. It's probable that other factors are at play and in such years any additional predation and disturbance of broods has a greater impact on overall numbers.

So one way of combating the wetter weather is to make sure we maximise good quality heather to offer the grouse shelter. Our keepering team is working hard to make this happen in the face of a large heather beetle outbreak in an important part of the moor. We are also pleased to be able to say that harriers have probably not been the driver of this poor breeding success as monitoring suggests no grouse chicks have been brought to the harrier nests. Nevertheless the implications of these counts are important for the project and the project team is using them to assess future monitoring and trial work on the moor.

July 2011: The milestone review by the project's Scientific & Technical Advisory Group of the first three years of the Project (November 2007 to October 2010) is now available for download. See the Project Administration page for the review