gamekeepers

Wildlife estate managers

Gamekeepers are people employed to manage wildlife on an estate, particularly to breed and protect game birds and animals for hunting.

The role involves controlling poachers and predators, maintaining habitats, and ensuring healthy populations of pheasant, grouse, deer, and other quarry.

The job is most associated with British country estates: The gamekeeper caught them poaching rabbits.

profession

wardens

Supervisory officials of institutions

stalkers · beaters · foresters · bailiffs · wildfowlers · deer stalkers · rural employment · apprentices

estate

country houses

Large rural residences

landowners · syndicates · shooting parties · tweed · hunting lodges · moorland · coverts · woodlands · heathland · uplands

wildlife

pheasants

Ring-necked game birds

hares · rabbits · woodcock · wildfowl · ptarmigan · mallard · quail · snipe · fallow deer · red deer

duties

predator control

Managing harmful animal populations

culling · vermin control · anti-poaching · patrolling · breeding programs · population counts · egg collection

controversy

persecution

Systematic mistreatment of groups

licensing · conservationists · sustainability · biodiversity loss · environmental impact · animal welfare · hunting ethics

Categories
Opposites
legality/role in wildlife management

gamekeeperspoachers

Illicit wildlife takers

poacher · rustlers · smugglers · trespassers

relationship to wildlife

gamekeeperspredators

Animals that kill prey

foxes · wolves · vermin · pests

role in wildlife management

gamekeeperspoachers

Illicit wildlife takers

predators · hunters · exterminators · cullers · pest controllers

Family

gamekeeper

Familiarity
Top 500,000
Profile
Timeless · Concrete · Everyday, not technical · Rated G